# Poster Warned then Suspended for debating in Great Debates

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**Created:** [October 21, 2019, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-warned-then-suspended-for-debating-in-great-debates/842092 "2019-10-21T16:26:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-warned-then-suspended-for-debating-in-great-debates/842092/110 "2019-10-23T17:00:40Z")

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> [@Bone](#):
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> \*\*wolfpup \*\*has it right in post#14. The thread is talking about unauthorized disclosure of classified information. WillFarnaby makes the handoff to “anti-state speech”. This isn’t a thread about anti-state speech. Will also introduces the idea of whistleblowing, but that’s not what the thread is about either. This is compounded by introducing Manning, Snowden, Binney, etc. None of these are related to dementia causing unauthorized disclosure of classified information.

This is a transparent pretext to get rid of someone you don’t like. The same “violation” occurs all over this board, but people don’t get in trouble for it if they are not disliked. Here’s a moderator going wildly off-topic:

> [@We Have Betrayed the Kurds](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-betrayed-the-kurds/841420/447):
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> I hesitated to ask this, but my curiosity has gotten the better of me. **How is the Democratic Party’s platform (not “agenda”; it’s a party platform) “generally destructive to the country”?**
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> Be specific and, as this is Great Debates, feel free to actually bolster your specifics with some kind of substantiation.

I await your tortured explanation as to how this is on topic to debate the issue of whether we have or have not betrayed the Kurds. (Spoiler: we have.)  
A couple more examples I found with just a quick perusal of GD:

> [@If that's not an emolument, I don't know what is](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-thats-not-an-emolument-i-dont-know-what-is/841919/81):
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> Gerrymandering is part of the problem, but there’s no saving ourselves from ourselves.

(Topic: emoluments)

> [@Obamacare](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamacare/841364/80):
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> They’re nothing but parasites, pure and simple. Gross, low, reprehensible parasites.
> 
> Fuck 'em. That’s what I think about the insurance industry. And I’m far from the only one.

(Topic: whether Obamacare can or cannot be termed a failure 9 years later)

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