>What happened to free anonymous speech on the internet?

Clearly you don't understand the internet

All websites and their forums are hosted on servers. Those servers are regulated by other normal people. When they host a forum they have the power. They use their power to monitor the conversations to ensure that only opinions they agree with are presented. In effect they convince other people of their opinions by leading discussion in certain directions. On the internet you have no guarantee of free speech, unless you're ambitious enough to host your own server (put a box in your closet and check it every now and then)

Zymic is a very good host.

by far, I use zymic.

"Xeno seems to have this view of entitlement. "

#$@$= right I do.  Liberty is an entitlement, fought and died for by our ancestors.

"you don't have the right to tell me what I can think otherwise."

Wrong.  I do have that right.  And you have the right not to listen.

Rights can't be empirically tested

"Wrong.  I do have that right.  And you have the right not to listen."

Arrogance at it's best. So you like telling people what to do eh? Fancy yourself a dictator crushing the liberties and rights of others? Trying to be a law unto yourself? And here you were worring abou the NWO when you aspire to be it yourself. ^.^

I just find it amusing that's he's all worried about Big Brother coming to get us and that we all need to live in trees before it's too late to preserve our liberties when he himself wants to be that Big Brother and control how people think and do. Going so far as to suggest we change our entire social/economic structure just to appease his own well being. Very inconsiderate and self centered.

I had mentioned about liability issues. Apparently it went over his head that websites are privately owned.

>>all in order to have the 'privilege' post our thoughts?<<

You guys have to understand, xeno feels that he is entitled to the private property of others, regardless of the labor and resources used to produce it and where they came from. He feels that it is his right to do with others' property as he pleases, regardless of their will.

Wow, there is so much I am not going to bother to respond to.

If you idiots want to paint me as a communist, go through the threads I've posted in and QUOTE ANYTHING that I have said that shows that I am a communist.  Good luck.  Happy hunting.  Take your sweet time.

I will however respond to Phssthpok, who was the only one who said anything even remotely intelligent:

"Do you have any idea about the concept of private ownership? If you own the website you get to make the rules end of story."

Phssthpok, if the law makes the forum host liable for the content anonymous posters place on his forum, ALL forum hosts will protect themselves from litigation (or worse) by NOT allowing anonymous posters and requiring everyone who does post to provide detailed identifying and contact information.  The law, in effect, diminishes free speech in our societies. This is another step towards authoritarian control over the internet and society at large.  Without anonymous posting on internet forums, and if authoritarian, opressive governments are known to be able to trace identities of people who post articles that are not supportive of the Party, and then quietly make them 'disappear' in the middle of the night, the oppressed would censor themselves when posting online, and remain quiet about the crimes committed against them by their oppressive authoritarian governments.