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by Res Ipsa
Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:43 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: It’s really easy if you stick with telling the truth
Replies: 64
Views: 883

Re: It’s really easy if you stick with telling the truth

As this issue has legal ramifications, I'd really appreciate input from the other lawyers on the board and anyone else who has followed this issue in terms of my reading of the law. These issues are out of my area legally, but, I will look at Section 230 and commentary and then chime in if the issu...
by Res Ipsa
Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:42 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Confused Missionary Numbers
Replies: 5
Views: 99

Re: Confused Missionary Numbers

The Church News article never made sense to me. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2019 and early 2020, the Church counted some 69,000 young teaching and service missionaries and senior missionaries. The pandemic resulted in international closures and restriction and the resulting return ...
by Res Ipsa
Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:34 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: It’s really easy if you stick with telling the truth
Replies: 64
Views: 883

Re: It’s really easy if you stick with telling the truth

I think the combination of the gravity of the claims combined with the refusal to provide facts likely generates a feeling of discomfort for all of us. In a way, it functions like gaslighting. Maybe whatever our opinions are of Dehlin and the Open Stories Foundation are wildly wrong and Dehlin is S...
by Res Ipsa
Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:27 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: It’s really easy if you stick with telling the truth
Replies: 64
Views: 883

Re: It’s really easy if you stick with telling the truth

Listen, if Rosebud were posting on a variety of topics, then NBD. It’s the one-note posters who spam the board occasionally like the few that have a megathread dedicated to them. If Rosebud were suddenly to start posting on whatever topic in whatever forum(s) then cool, she’s engaging with the inte...
by Res Ipsa
Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:12 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: It’s really easy if you stick with telling the truth
Replies: 64
Views: 883

Re: It’s really easy if you stick with telling the truth

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects the board, it owner, the site host, etc. from liability. It does not protect the individual who posts defamatory material. Responding to discovery requests would be a hassle, but that's about it. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R4...
by Res Ipsa
Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:09 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: It’s really easy if you stick with telling the truth
Replies: 64
Views: 883

Re: It’s really easy if you stick with telling the truth

Having done my level best to understand the child abuse Rosebud is referring to, I think it's the claims of organized, ritualistic child abuse allegedly embedded in, or covered up by, the organization of the LDS church. We've discussed such claims, sometimes in great detail, from time to time here. ...
by Res Ipsa
Wed Apr 17, 2024 3:19 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: It’s really easy if you stick with telling the truth
Replies: 64
Views: 883

Re: It’s really easy if you stick with telling the truth

I'm in the process of thinking through this issue of censoring accusations of criminal conduct or intent to commit criminal conduct, and would appreciate hearing people's thoughts on a couple of issues. The first one is, why are Rosebud's accusations about covering up child abuse any different than...
by Res Ipsa
Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:52 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: It’s really easy if you stick with telling the truth
Replies: 64
Views: 883

Re: It’s really easy if you stick with telling the truth

I'm in the process of thinking through this issue of censoring accusations of criminal conduct or intent to commit criminal conduct, and would appreciate hearing people's thoughts on a couple of issues. The first one is, why are Rosebud's accusations about covering up child abuse any different than...
by Res Ipsa
Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:30 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Spamming
Replies: 10
Views: 283

Re: Spamming

Just so I understand, are you saying it is our job as mods to avoid doing anything that would anger you? Are you saying that we are responsible for what you do when you are angry? No and no. That's not what I said. I simply don't appreciate the fact that some people are treated differently. However...
by Res Ipsa
Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:56 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: The Trump Criminal Case MEGATHREAD.
Replies: 352
Views: 116309

Re: The Trump Criminal Case MEGATHREAD.

Here is a link to the prosecution's motion to hold Mr. Trump in contempt for violating the court's gag order: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents ... empt-filed