[Fawkes]

Originally Posted by Blackened

The CF owners are just playing safe in a new area, surely. I can't blame them for that. Senior CF team members have all but said it's not exactly an ideal situation or something they support. I don't think it's unreasonable of them to ask us to just play it down a bit and not flag CF as somewhere where anyone can find info on how to get round the block, even if it's all out there elsewhere. Anyone wanting to bypass the block knows how to or can Google how to. I don't believe we can honestly feel like we're being censored - that's a bit extreme. Can't we just go along with this while everyone's a bit uncertain?
As for the ads - aren't they just Google keyword generated? Again, I think it's unfair to take the moral high ground and suggest CF is being a hypocrite by allowing them. If the admins think it's unsuitable, give them a chance to block the keywords. It's weekend, I'm sure Paul M has things he'd rather be doing.
I don't like any of this as much as anyone else, but shifting the REAL focus of the situtation onto CF and pretending it's all a massive deal that we can't talk about circumventing the VM block here, is a bit like blaming the car for running out of petrol. Everyone knows it's not the car's fault really, but it's the one thing you can vent your frustration at easily (however misplaced). Not entirely fair IMO.

Just to clarify, I understand the CF response to this. They have put time and money into this site and don't want to fall foul of the law. When I talked about censorship I was mainly referring to the case. It is self-censorship but we have no free speech right here anyway although I'm sure the CF team will say it's all good as long as you don't breach the ToS.

Originally Posted by Fawkes

...now the owners of this site fear legal repercussions if they allow its users to discuss ways to bypass this block.

This is what's called a chilling effect.