OMFG! Are you an ACLU rep or what. Actually, you should think about practicing law.

3) If you think anyone here cares about your or my objections to this action, you are delusional.

Curt

I think that there is nothing wrong with the title being changed. While the words “whorehouse” and “masturbation” are indeed present in the dictionary, that doesn’t make it okay to use them for an off-color play on words on a site that is viewed by youngsters. The words “grandmother” and “sex” are also in the dictionary, but you probably wouldn’t want to see a post entitled “I enjoy having sex with your dead grandmother”.

Also, I think that people just love to complain (i.e. bleeding heart liberals). I doubt that very many people who have complained about this actually give a spit about drkodos being censored. They just want to complain, so they are quick to jump on the “first amendment bandwagon”. I’m sure that when drkodos chose the title for his original post he expected to stir some level of controversy. I suspect that he knew exactly what he was doing. Don’t you think that he is a big boy and can take it? It doesn’t have to always be a constitutional issue…sometimes things are just plain inappropriate. Besides, how badly are your first amendment rights violated because some controversy-loving old fart is prohibited from using off-color words on a site visited by youngsters? There are bigger battles to fight, you know.

Could it have anything to do with the Patriot Act?

Problem is dude, there is a climb named Sexy Grandma at J Tree. How do you propese we talk about it if we cannot say it's name?

You know, my name is Richard. Friends call me Dick.

We even had a President named Dick. Should we not use his name and erase it from the history books?

Your position is absurd, obtuse, myopic, and puritanical.

No one needs to be sheltered from words.

If you think people need protection form words, then you and your ilk are a detriment to intellectual thought and creative thinking.

You’re actually missing my point. I feel that if you were going to talk about a climb named Sexy Grandma then of course it would be ridiculous to censor you. But, on the other hand, if you were going to discuss having sex with my grandmother, then let the censoring begin!

I encourage everyone else to pursue their freedom of speech and say "hey, this is pathetic."
we shouldn't have to walk on eggshells.
Everyone has been insulted in some way or another, grow up and let it roll off your back - and anyone that was insulted by that HISTORICAL QUOTE needs to get off their high horse and spend some time in the real world.
PEACE

With respect to fryingbacon, and all who aren't happy about the changing of the thread title (which includes me), this has nothing to do with your first amendment rights. If RC.com were a government-run institution, publicly-funded or if you were required by law to participate, then you would have a legitimate beef in the regard. Nobody's rights have in anyway been violated.

I received at least 8 PMs to change the title of my 'Asses' thread. They too were all hilarious and moronic in logic, and several didn't even cite a reason. Which is partly why I am sure the mods/admins are held to high standards of stupidity by the owners.

Live free or die.

Note that this poster has often wondered out loud why mods tend to pick on him.

I, too, find it an utter mystery why people he cannot respect, do not respect him.

Changing the title was (IMHO) a bad move. But I'm not going to override a mod who thought they were making the right decision (financially and ethically).

Finally, someone publicly admits that censorship on this site is done to maximize income.

-Jay

Well, see--that's just the point here. The thread was NOT about actually going into a whorehouse and masturbating. Those words are a fairly well known climbing metaphor that means to go to a given climbing area and then engage in some type of climbing activity there that the area is not best known for. Curt