Free speech comes with responsibilities

[blackpowder]

Admin just asking for some common sense.
Trying to "prove" a pet "theory" just turns people off. Even JWs know when to lighten up.

[fjlip]

"the origins of the COVID-19 virus, the validity of vaccines"

WHO is debating origins, they are TRUTHFULLY accurately given "emergency authorization". None is a fake.
Those are truths.
Recommendations have changed over last 15 months, which are misinformation?

[bucket]

here is some free speech for you...

Erin O'toole asks the PM phucktard about his ethics....and the phucktard PM answers with some nonsense about climate change...

Is that the responsibility that comes with free speech????????????????/

[Guest]

While Agriville.com has long been a free and open platform for farmers, ranchers and agricultural professionals to engage with each other, ask farming questions, and share stories related to their experiences with agriculture, we have received several complaints recently about the conduct of some Agriville.com users.

Agriville.com has always championed free speech and believe that we should all be free to express and share our thoughts and feelings about farming and ag-related topics in a respectful manner, but it seems that a few posters have been using this platform to regularly discuss highly divisive topics that are not related to agriculture, such as the origins of the COVID-19 virus, the validity of vaccines, and even the gender of Canada’s chief medical officer. We will not tolerate any form of hate speech or defamation.

We feel we must speak out. Please understand that while we value your unique opinions and the value that you bring to farming/ag discussions, we ask that you please consider that nature and intent of this site – a place for people in the ag community to share and discuss the issues that matter most in their professional lives – farming.

Some users have quit the site in protest. We would encourage users to report abusers. If necessary, we will take appropriate action with users who continue to post highly divisive, non-ag topics, and/or which include factually false statements, that provide no value to the farming community.

Thank you for your cooperation.
Agriville.com Admin

sorry accidental like
you have at least two posters who have , maybe once in a blue moon , discussed anything remotely close to a farm issue , nice to see that being addressed

[Guest]

Fjlip and Big Lentil did you get the message? Stop posting far right conspiracy theories .

ummmm. it said quit singling people out ?

[Guest]

i think its time to exchange cell numbers
made some good friends on here
bought some excellent lamb on here
the times , they are a changing , the end is near
got excellent marketing advice from 101, excellent agrology tips from furrow and sf3, excellenting accounting tips from richard , excellent hard to find parts sourcing from klause , excellent electric vehicle info from alberta farmer 4 ,heart touching stories from burnt , etc. etc

[Guest]

Admin, if you begin censorship, you show yourselves to be a bunch of spineless, schoolyard bullies caving in to the weak and the woke.

Shame on you.

sorry another accidental like

[sumdumguy]

with Bill C10, its gonna get a lot worse. Forget free speech. That’s prolly Barbie’s new job. Wa-Wa-Wa

[AlbertaFarmer5]

This seems to be one of those highly divisive thread topics, judging by the responses... already broke their own policy...
Personally, I am sick of the Covid debate, both the chicken little's, and the conspiracy nuts, I ignore both of them most days.
And most of us are big boys and girls (one notable exception, but we were requested not to single anyone out, so I won't name any names), we can choose to ignore or engage, we can make our own judgment about what is fake news and what isn't.
What I don't want to see(and I'm sure they have much better things to do), is the admin's trying to decide for us what is and isn't fake news, in an ever evolving world, that isn't even possible. Our fellow posters are mostly quite reliable on calling out the nut jobs on both sides. Let them destroy their own credibility, censoring them just makes the rest suspicious about what is really being hidden.
As they say, Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt both extremes are busy removing all doubt...

I think that any of us who still want to discuss commodity marketing should take it to the Spiritual Vignettes forum, and leave the endless Covid and SJW debates here.

[BreadWinner]

If it would just frikin rain we could be all friends again. lol

[jamesb]

I get it that some issues have made some people become solidly entrenched on one side and the discussion becomes rather pointless. I think its a great thing that this platform has existed for the years it has and would hope that it continues. There have been a lot of good posters that left because "they couldn't take it" as what I call the hardliners would say. Lets face it the number of active posters have been reduced to a couple dozen (maybe) including a handful that do most of the posts. The attitude towards other opinions had created a toxic place that more and more avoid. I would be fine with a covid discussion page and make sure the grain marketing page is more pure marketing. I know there is a desire by some to have a completely unfettered site where everything goes and those people are saying now that they are leaving. Those same posters encouraged others to leave if they couldn't take it. We are all taking about rights and freedoms eh? If the owner wants to a certain level of decorum on Agriville, well its their right. If those that can't abide by those expectations want to go elsewhere, well that's their right. There are a heck of a lot of Facebook group pages with a groups of people that think the same.

[agstar77]

Again where is the responsibility for posting false narrative about a global pandemic acknowledged by the world's governments? FJLIP

[Guest]

What a shit disturber
Did you get beat up a lot in school?

[agstar77]

What a shit disturber
Did you get beat up a lot in school?

Did you actually graduate from kindergarten ?

[Guest]

Did you actually graduate from kindergarten ?

yes , a small ceremony in 65, just close friends and family , limit of 10 because of polio