BeWelcome censorship: Difference between revisions

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It can easily be claimed that this incident itself is not censorship as only cross posts were deleted, and at least one of the post was kept which is less of a restriction of your freedom of speech.
It can easily be claimed that this incident itself is not censorship as only cross posts were deleted, and at least one of the post was kept which is less of a restriction of your freedom of speech.


[http://www.bewelcome.org/forums/s5378-SeekTheDuck_2013__a_BeWelcome_event_in_Toulouse__France__June_1__2013_ The message] was later made sticky, which made it very visible for a while, but the moderation team refused to admit they did a mistake.
[http://www.bewelcome.org/forums/s5378-SeekTheDuck_2013__a_BeWelcome_event_in_Toulouse__France__June_1__2013_ The message] was later made sticky, which made it very visible for a while, but the moderation team refused to admit having done a mistake.


== Banning of members ==
== Banning of members ==

Revision as of 16:54, 1 April 2013

BeWelcome is quite an open and transparent organization compared to CouchSurfing and Hospitality Club but one could say even here there are cases of censorship in BeWelcome.

Moderation team

BW's forum is moderated by the moderation team, which coordinates itself in a private group. Its creation date is mid/late 2012 (?) and was not debated in the forum.

Deletions of posts

In March 2013, cross posted invitations to seek the duck (a toulousan event promoting BW) were deleted by a member of the moderation team. This opened a discussion about moderation.

It can easily be claimed that this incident itself is not censorship as only cross posts were deleted, and at least one of the post was kept which is less of a restriction of your freedom of speech.

The message was later made sticky, which made it very visible for a while, but the moderation team refused to admit having done a mistake.

Banning of members

In December 2012, Tim Loal, notorious (some would say infamous) for beeing vocal about the management of BW, was banned from the forums for 1 year. A protest group FREE TIM NOW ! was created.