# 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:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-warned-then-suspended-for-debating-in-great-debates/842092/16 "2019-10-21T20:06:33Z")

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> [@Riemann](#):
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> This injunction is quite understandable. But I have to say I don’t think Will violated it in the thread in question. His comment was relevant to someone suggesting that an ex-president could be quietly silenced by the state.

\*\*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 clearly violative of the previous instructions.

When the instructions were given, WillFarnaby indicated that he had no intention of changing behavior:

> [@Bone issues “Notice”- stop being libertarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bone-issues-notice-stop-being-libertarian/836705/1):
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> What he seems to be doing is also forbidding me from addressing topics using an anti-authoritarian or anti-statist framework. If this is the case, he may as well commence with the banning, because I have no intention of addressing topics in any other way.

That’s not a good recipe for being a member in good standing.

But the thing that pushed this over the line from a warning to a temp suspension pending further discussion is Will’s attempt to take pot shots in response. Previously he referred to me as a kind of token conservative, or a pet of some kind:

> [@Really Bone?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bone/825306/1):
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> Yes I understand the desire to be patted on the head by leftists as an approved conservative like Max Boot or Bill Kristol.
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> That is some petty stuff, bud.

Then, in the recent example, similar:

> [@Hypothetically, what if an ex-President loses it and starts spilling state secrets?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetically-what-if-an-ex-president-loses-it-and-starts-spilling-state-secrets/841989/25):
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> _The Pet Strikes Back_

This last one would have received a warning by itself but I suspended him instead.

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