Russia Defense .net forum shut down by hosting company

[Zhuge Liang]

Can't Russia set up something similar. I dislike all these ongoing bans against the Russians whether its overt line this or covert. The west shouldn't be at war with them.

RDF was not banned for being pro-Russian but for hate speech (prominent users hosting incitement to murder/genocide, racial hatred and Holocaust denial), with the admin willfully tolerating it and refusing to moderate. Geopolitical sympathies had nothing to do with the ban.

 

[poetess]

RDF was not banned for being pro-Russian but for hate speech (prominent users hosting incitement to murder/genocide, racial hatred and Holocaust denial), with the admin willfully tolerating it and refusing to moderate. Geopolitical sympathies had nothing to do with the ban.

Fair enough. Why were those posts and posters not banned? Why remove the entire forum?

 

[Zhuge Liang]

Fair enough. Why were those posts and posters not banned? Why remove the entire forum?

The admin refused to remove them. Forumotion itself does not moderate forums (that's admin's job), when they're facing a defiant admin hosting TOS violations, they remove the forum.

I myself hold rather heterodox geopolitical opinions - but there is a difference between "the west is bad/wrong/deluded" and "Pakis are s*bhuman tr*sh"/"Running those r*ts [i.e. immigrants to Europe] to the sea is the right thing to do"/"Ukrainians should be exterminated" - and a pretty massive difference I guess.

Like I said, creating a new Forumotion forums takes 5 min. and is completely free but the admins need to follow Forumotion TOS. Forum rules like the ones here or on Sinodefence are ok but some things (all sorts of hateful BS) must be off limits, even on Reddit there are tons of subreddits that trash the US and West every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner and nobody shuts them down so you can definitely be anti western and survive fine.

 

[LarsFrost]

Thanks. Maybe Biggazza knows something? I was really surprised they shut down that forum. It was one of the best in terms of the quality of discussion. I hope GarryB brings the RussiaDefence forum back at a new address. But I can't find a way to contact anyone—I've only come across you and Biggazza. I don't get what kind of moron at Forumotion banned it; the forum had survived for so many years.

I just messaged Biggazza the link to this thread and asked him if he has heard anything

 

[LarsFrost]

RDF was not banned for being pro-Russian but for hate speech (prominent users hosting incitement to murder/genocide, racial hatred and Holocaust denial), with the admin willfully tolerating it and refusing to moderate. Geopolitical sympathies had nothing to do with the ban.

How would you know ? were you a member ?

And you are totally over inflating the racial hate thing. One Serbian member went a little overboard sometimes and was temporarily banned. Many members were temporarily and permanently banned.

I was banned for months for not using the quote function right. To say that RDF wasn't moderated is ridiculous.