pprune censoring
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Sorry for the cryptic message.
Once upon a time some country was blocked from accessing pprune. Someone knew why this was and made a few posts about it. But his posts were deleted by an administrator. When I pm'd this user about the issue he did pm me back but was then banned from receiving (perhaps also sending) pm's. I am not making this up. He could not receive pm's anymore as I got an error message stating this person is not allowed to receive pm's.
This is not meant to fuel any conspiracy theory (although I am sure it will). Instead, it shows you something about integrity.
Once upon a time some country was blocked from accessing pprune. Someone knew why this was and made a few posts about it. But his posts were deleted by an administrator. When I pm'd this user about the issue he did pm me back but was then banned from receiving (perhaps also sending) pm's. I am not making this up. He could not receive pm's anymore as I got an error message stating this person is not allowed to receive pm's.
This is not meant to fuel any conspiracy theory (although I am sure it will). Instead, it shows you something about integrity.
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One of the admins posted this explanation:
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I don't think it is because of spam.Otherwise users won't get their posts deleted when pointing fingers and most certainly won't get banned from the PM system.
In all honesty, it could also be to protect the forum users, as crazy as it may sound. Because if certain organizations start to hack forum servers to extract personal information of certain individuals because they said not so nice things about certain governments, things can get ugly very quickly. I know for a fact that certain governments go to great lengths to find out who is behind certain online posts. Foreigners are just kicked out of the country but locals can end up in jail or sometimes just disappear. I can understand if pprune doesn't want anything to do with that.
Honestly, I don't know the real reason behind all of this, but it most certainly isn't "just" spam.
In all honesty, it could also be to protect the forum users, as crazy as it may sound. Because if certain organizations start to hack forum servers to extract personal information of certain individuals because they said not so nice things about certain governments, things can get ugly very quickly. I know for a fact that certain governments go to great lengths to find out who is behind certain online posts. Foreigners are just kicked out of the country but locals can end up in jail or sometimes just disappear. I can understand if pprune doesn't want anything to do with that.
Honestly, I don't know the real reason behind all of this, but it most certainly isn't "just" spam.
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I don't think it is because of spam.Otherwise users won't get their posts deleted when pointing fingers and most certainly won't get banned from the PM system.
In all honesty, it could also be to protect the forum users, as crazy as it may sound. Because if certain organizations start to hack forum servers to extract personal information of certain individuals because they said not so nice things about certain governments, things can get ugly very quickly. I know for a fact that certain governments go to great lengths to find out who is behind certain online posts. Foreigners are just kicked out of the country but locals can end up in jail or sometimes just disappear. I can understand if pprune doesn't want anything to do with that.
Honestly, I don't know the real reason behind all of this, but it most certainly isn't "just" spam.
In all honesty, it could also be to protect the forum users, as crazy as it may sound. Because if certain organizations start to hack forum servers to extract personal information of certain individuals because they said not so nice things about certain governments, things can get ugly very quickly. I know for a fact that certain governments go to great lengths to find out who is behind certain online posts. Foreigners are just kicked out of the country but locals can end up in jail or sometimes just disappear. I can understand if pprune doesn't want anything to do with that.
Honestly, I don't know the real reason behind all of this, but it most certainly isn't "just" spam.
