Rules update: new policy (#10) and its immediate implementation

I've edited my post for clarity, @Typoz (see the new parenthetical). I get the sense you misunderstood it, which is fair enough given the wording.

Thanks, I think I inferred a different meaning indeed.

It appears this place is now shut down all by itself. Between the harsh treatment of members and visitors, and rude comments, bullying and snobbish attitudes, echo chamber BS discussions, and trashing everyone else's input by those in charge, or those who think they own the floor and must be so much more intelligent than others, you have literally shot yourselves down.
Good luck with your nonsense in the future, hope it was a lesson in humility, but likely not because of the nature of the mentality it takes to be so off-putting to everyone who visits here.
Today, I'm the only member here, and nothing but scan bots and guests... boom!
Good bye, good riddance. Enjoy your hate circle jerk.

A new policy has been added to our forum rules and guidelines:


Consistent with this policy, several members will be removed via a permanent ban. [Update: the names of those members and the reasons for their bans have been elided now that access to the opt-in forums has been removed, and therefore that the links supporting those reasons are also no longer accessible. Additionally, given that they were not given the opportunity to defend themselves against them here, their breaches will no longer be publicised here either.]

These members have roughly forty-eight hours to finalise their affairs by posting any concluding on-topic posts in any public threads, and sending any concluding messages in any private conversations, after which the bans will be implemented. They should note that anything that they post is now subject to moderation, and that posts or threads attempting to defend their support for these harms will not be approved.

Your understanding of Zionism needs work.  I am a Zionist but not by the definition that antizionists use.  Zionism is simply the belief that the Jews have the right to self-determination in their own historical homeland.  If you want to ban me (remembering that I am largely a pacifist and agree totally with your principles in doing this) then you are welcome.

I agree it’s a great shame this place has gone completely silent. But I think the main issue is that the debates have been inactive for quite some time. Most posts are just links to YouTube presentations and similar content. Biases have painted most members into a corner.

Most of the debates with pseudo-skeptics were worthless.

The debates between proponents are sorely missed though.

I agree it’s a great shame this place has gone completely silent. But I think the main issue is that the debates have been inactive for quite some time. Most posts are just links to YouTube presentations and similar content. Biases have painted most members into a corner.

Bias and mental health issues. 
It isn't like it is a public place, or a public forum, it is some personal echo chamber reserved for those of the same feather.
Then those of the same feather attack and bully anyone that they deem less intelligent, or disturbs the status quo of the elite bitches in charge.

Most of the debates with pseudo-skeptics were worthless.

The debates between proponents are sorely missed though.

There you go again with the division and hate. 
You are judging people using your own set of worthless echo chamber nonsense rules, because you can't be open minded or allow anyone else to have an opinion without bashing them or calling them names.
Geez, perfect example of the assholes here, again.

Your understanding of Zionism needs work.  I am a Zionist but not by the definition that antizionists use.  Zionism is simply the belief that the Jews have the right to self-determination in their own historical homeland.  If you want to ban me (remembering that I am largely a pacifist and agree totally with your principles in doing this) then you are welcome.

Just using a Psi related platform to try and force some perceived agenda onto other people makes Laird a tyrant that doesn't believe in freedom of speech, or thought, and he would have the entire world turned into woo woo pacifists. As if this platform and the lack of engagement makes any difference to anyone, anywhere. Shows that he has no idea about what influences what, or why people decide to change their minds and how that comes about.
Just ban everyone that isn't sucking up to his political or spiritual decisions, as if that hurts them or causes change, what a dick.
Why any of the other founding members put up with his mental issues being projected onto this platform is disgusting as well.

There you go again with the division and hate. 
You are judging people using your own set of worthless echo chamber nonsense rules, because you can't be open minded or allow anyone else to have an opinion without bashing them or calling them names.
Geez, perfect example of the assholes here, again.

You judged Donald Hoffman's work as garbage and diagnosed him over the internet with some kind of mental disorder.

I am just going to assume you are trolling or are amazingly lacking in self-awareness.

[Laird]

Your understanding of Zionism needs work.  I am a Zionist but not by the definition that antizionists use.  Zionism is simply the belief that the Jews have the right to self-determination in their own historical homeland.  If you want to ban me (remembering that I am largely a pacifist and agree totally with your principles in doing this) then you are welcome.

Zionism and pacifism are mutually exclusive. I can't ban you for taking an incoherent position, but we can try to identify any specifically problematic aspects of your views.

As a pacifist, do you:

1. Condemn the violent dispossession of Palestinians of their land and their ethnic cleansing that began in 1948 in the Nakba, an ongoing atrocity, including the ever-expanding settlements in the West Bank, unequivocally illegal under international law even if one denies the illegitimacy of a state founded on land theft, along with the unprovoked settler violence condoned by that state's police forces?
   
2. Condemn the levelling of Gaza and the ongoing genocide being committed against Gazans, and only a little less visibly against Palestinians in general?
   
3. Condemn the apartheid system that has been set up to control and subjugate Palestinians on their own land, including barriers and pass systems that limit their movements?
   
4. Condemn the arbitrary and systemic detention and torture of Palestinians?
   
5. Condemn the general racism of the society that dehumanises Palestinians such that all of this is possible?