Enjoy this board while you can

Why did all the prepper shows get cancelled? They were all getting good ratings.

Top Shot had good ratings for several years and was dropped. Now it's on The Sportsman Channel or something like that.

Big Brotha.

Chacken ain't got no allegiance to IMDb. He will make sure our voices are never silenced.

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Free speech (whether typed or spoken) is slowly eroding away.

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I think you need a refresher on what "free speech" means. Free speech means you can say what you want without legal consequences outside of stuff like screaming fire in a crowded room, hate speech, etc. Free speech doesn't guarantee anyone access to an online message board that someone has to spend a significant amount of money for you to have access too.

Political correctness did not work out so they are going with direct censorship.

Chicken ain't no chicken.

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I think you need a refresher on what "free speech" means. Free speech means you can say what you want without legal consequences outside of stuff like screaming fire in a crowded room, hate speech, etc

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So maybe two people need a refresher on free speech...

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Why did all the prepper shows get cancelled? They were all getting good ratings.

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You mean like Alone, Hunted, etc? Because they, and others, are still on but a lot of people are feeling less concerned and survivalist necessary now that Obama is gone.

As far as the IMdb is concerned I've noticed a lot of editors and contributors over there have been laying into celebrities lately on their message boards and they cannot keep up with the moderation aspect.

Plus their software is outdated and it's gotta be a bandwidth big nightmare. They'll probably save big money.

The culture of censorship is one of the scariest things forming right now. I am always quick to shoot down the straw-man argument, "But the First Amendment applies only to government action."

The reason that's a straw man is because, yeah, no shite. No one said otherwise.

But the First Amendment doesn't mean shite if we live in a culture willing to self-censor because we no longer value freedom of expression and value more the freedom from offense or exposure to "negativity" (aka "opposing views").

My mantra for decades has been that law follows culture. So the First Amendment, while it won't be repealed or amended in my lifetime or yours, can be gutted and ignored in many "judicial" and extra-judicial ways. It already has been in many jurisdictions. Thank GOD we don't have HRC stacking the Court over the next several years. But even still, the Court can't hear everything.

Also, as behemoth companies like Google, FB, Amazon, and Apple continue to control the exchange of information, there isn't much the Supreme Court or any other court can do about their domination of "expression." We may end up the victims of a pseudo-fascist "free market" dictatorship.

So I do believe it is paramount to oppose even private censorship. Not in an SJW whiny way, but by grasping and preaching the importance of open discourse.

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SeaOfRed

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It's time to put down the crack pipe.

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IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. As part of our ongoing effort to continually evaluate and enhance the customer experience on IMDb, we have decided to disable IMDb's message boards on February 20, 2017. This includes the Private Message system. After in-depth discussion and examination, we have concluded that IMDb's message boards are no longer providing a positive, useful experience for the vast majority of our more than 250 million monthly users worldwide.

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In other words....it's too much of a pain in the arse and expense to maintain and monitor.

It's not a free speech issue because (1) IMDb is not government, and (2) they are not silencing some and not others. They killed the whole thing.