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Getting seriously pissed off right now. On another forum, in the health and beauty forum, I discuss health and beauty stuff. If people ask about a product, I'll often point out the ingredients in it that are noxious and nasty. Or if they're going on about something like soy I'll point out that soy is really bad for you, and explain why. None of this is rude, talking down at anyone, unreasonable, obnoxious, or unwanted because a lot of the other posters now ask for my advice on things and on chemicals and on diet and nutrition and whatnot.
Then last week, one of my threads got deleted because I mentioned aspartame's toxicity, and there's a big flashing 'Splenda' advert on the site. I had a rude email from the new editor about it. Then other girls complained about it being taken down, and she put a huge rant about it on that one.
Next thing another person puts a huge whopping personal attack about me on the general discussions, and another couple of girls join in. Totally uncalled for, irrelevent, and full of s**t. I explained why I'm so concerned about these things - basically I'm sick of seeing people sick and dying because of this crap we're told is so good for us - and it was deleted. Then a bunch of other girls join in attacking me! Another few start sticking up for me, who are in the majority, and their posts are censored too.
Now, in reaction to that, someone else has started another thread in the beauty section about 'ingredients to avoid' - I've put a list of stuff on there, but I know it'll just get taken down.
I'm seriously at my wit's end with all this - a huge website is now hell-bent on censoring people and their opinions, virtually encouraging personal attacks, and tearing a rift in a really close-knit community (a lot of us meet up offline every week) because a couple of people disagree with a few things I've said (which are all factual).
I don't quite know what to do, it's really really pissing me off. I've been on there for four years, I know all the girls, suddenly new editor comes along, starts advertising crap like diet coke and aspartame and 'natural skincare' (which I pointed out is as far from natural as you can get), and goes all censor-censor and encouraging attacks!!
And I suspect it's the AS, but it was completely out of the blue and unexpected, and has taken me totally by surprise. And I don't know what to do in this kind of situation. I don't know what I can and can't post, what I can and can't say, etc.
Just needed to get that off my chest.
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