Censorship and The Maturity of Attitudes
Never before have I had to rant. Perhaps, just this once, we will make an exception.
Something happened a couple of nights ago. This blog's tagboard was visited by a particularly vicious charachter. I would not have minded his comments, even if his point of view disagrees with most... No. All of the crew members. I would have let his comments remain on the board for all to see. After all, we are not the most friendly of people when we are tired from lack of sleep and lugging heavy equipment for hours at a time, frustrated when we can't find anything to shoot, or when the thing we are shooting does things we don't want it to, or doesn't do things that we expect it to.
If a person were to attack us, I will appreciate the negative feedback as a point where we can improve the film or the crew, and perhaps do something to make things better. However, to say,"So-and-so is a f***ing b****" and leave it at that, I find as totally unacceptable. Just as unacceptable, is to say that the shores are a *bleeping* waste of time, and deserve to be buried. I'd like to know why. Did you go unprepared and get bitten by insects and burnt by the sun? Did you stay out in the rain and get sick? Did you play in water that was too deep and flood your handphone? That really is not our fault, is it? You couldn't find the things we found so that you could put them in your fish tank? We're not going to tell you where or when is a good time to go get them.
Unfortunately, the current state of the tagboard is due to the offensive nature of a poster a couple of nights back. The comments have been deleted, because I have decided from the start that this site is meant to be safe for 14 Year Old Sisters. The comments were caught by a sharp-eyed crew member, and were deleted I think within an hour of the poster leaving this blog.
Again, I do not like to censor my thoughts, nor do I wish to censor the thoughts of others. As Voltaire is said to have said,"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." However, if need be, the stick will be wielded, and the club thrown, I will censor you.
I have had disagreements before with the rest of the crew, even with some of the more important members. I have even had some discussions with visitors to our shores and exhibition booths where we do not agree on points of view. We can agree to disagree on some points, and keep other points in view for later discussion/argument. We can have a mature conversation, even on the tagboard, or any forum. Just leave the vulgarities out of it. Trolls will be taken clubbing.
Something happened a couple of nights ago. This blog's tagboard was visited by a particularly vicious charachter. I would not have minded his comments, even if his point of view disagrees with most... No. All of the crew members. I would have let his comments remain on the board for all to see. After all, we are not the most friendly of people when we are tired from lack of sleep and lugging heavy equipment for hours at a time, frustrated when we can't find anything to shoot, or when the thing we are shooting does things we don't want it to, or doesn't do things that we expect it to.
If a person were to attack us, I will appreciate the negative feedback as a point where we can improve the film or the crew, and perhaps do something to make things better. However, to say,"So-and-so is a f***ing b****" and leave it at that, I find as totally unacceptable. Just as unacceptable, is to say that the shores are a *bleeping* waste of time, and deserve to be buried. I'd like to know why. Did you go unprepared and get bitten by insects and burnt by the sun? Did you stay out in the rain and get sick? Did you play in water that was too deep and flood your handphone? That really is not our fault, is it? You couldn't find the things we found so that you could put them in your fish tank? We're not going to tell you where or when is a good time to go get them.
Unfortunately, the current state of the tagboard is due to the offensive nature of a poster a couple of nights back. The comments have been deleted, because I have decided from the start that this site is meant to be safe for 14 Year Old Sisters. The comments were caught by a sharp-eyed crew member, and were deleted I think within an hour of the poster leaving this blog.
Again, I do not like to censor my thoughts, nor do I wish to censor the thoughts of others. As Voltaire is said to have said,"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." However, if need be, the stick will be wielded, and the club thrown, I will censor you.
I have had disagreements before with the rest of the crew, even with some of the more important members. I have even had some discussions with visitors to our shores and exhibition booths where we do not agree on points of view. We can agree to disagree on some points, and keep other points in view for later discussion/argument. We can have a mature conversation, even on the tagboard, or any forum. Just leave the vulgarities out of it. Trolls will be taken clubbing.
2 Comments:
The point is, if you have constructive comments for the crew and our work, by all means, go ahead and criticise. There was no need to resort to name calling and juvenile behaviour with all that colour.. Having said that, it was that character who looked bad, not us.
Much of the destruction that goes on around us is due to ignorance. Destruction of nature, of other people's work.
Worse than ignorance is indifference. I kind of see it as a positive thing that someone took the time and trouble to go to our site and deface it. Suggests at least he/she is not indifferent to nature issues.
Not everyone will understand us or what we do. In fact, I'd say MOST people won't.
Which is the reason why it is so important to do what we do.
We are kind of building a "Point of View" gun :-)
Let's get ready to fire the baby then!
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