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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Gadersd via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Truth has a liberal bias [elon on twitter]<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…Perhaps I’m mistaken, but isn’t political discussion banned on this email list? Gadersd<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>No, Gadersd but thanks for asking. Such posts were never banned and are allowed now. To have a viable list, we must respect each other and treat each other the way one might at an in-person party, with social grace and constraint. No topic is banned.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We had a lot of animosity in the past leading to flame wars, the worst of which happened while I was on a two week camping trip away from the internet along the Ohanapecosh River, which is why I decided to hand off the ExI moderation to another…eh… life form… which is now not identified, even by species or home planet.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That experiment was a success: I noticed that no one specifically criticizes ExiMod and everyone here treats others with respect, since one never knows if one is attacking ExiMod ExiModself. (Note: ExiMod’s pronouns are ExiMod and ExiMod (sheesh how can one resist the temptation to ridicule the whole pronoun silliness? (I struggle and fail on that one.)))<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>If one feels some political post is relevant, go ahead. Do refrain from personal attack for that is not welcome here. Note that the Extropian Institute was founded in politics in a sense: it was the libertarian wing of the transhumanist movement. That’s what attracted me here 28 years ago.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>