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141. Skinner has said the standards of this forum are decided by the community.

Here in this thread we learned of a decision made by a few hosts which certainly doesn't represent the community. No one put words in your mouth, if this is not the case and there was some COMMUNITY consensus regarding this decision, then please point to it.

Or if the administration has a list of banned sources, something I have not seen.

I asked a simple question, what are the standards that determine a NEWS Source is unreliable.

I have not received an answer.

I just watched an excellent discussion on RT btw on Russia's LGBT's laws, community and it's activist community represented on the forum by a Gay Rights Activist. Not the first such program by any means. Unlike our MSN who rarely had such discussions and certainly never acknowledged the deep discrimination here in this country, no one on that forum denied the issues in Russia regarding the LGBT community.

I have seen false statements here regarding RT and its coverage of these issues. I will not stand by and allow people to make false statements about anything if I know them to be false.

As I said, LBN has lost credibility tonight. And that is a shame. I live here in NY and nearly everone I know here and in Ca where I lived until a few months ago, use RT as a reliable NEWS SOURCE. Especially Democrats. DU if it continues these ban these mainstream sources will find itself marginalized from the larger community. It was a bad decision. If my expressing my opinion is 'nasty' to you, then I suppose I could say the same about you.

But I don't find your disagreement with me to be 'nasty', I find name-calling and insults to be 'nasty'. Disagreements are simply that and as a host one should expect disagreement on issues as important as this.

Also I am willing to discuss anything with anyone, no matter how nasty they choose to be. There would be no point being on a discussion forum if I didn't want to discuss not just with those I agree with, but with those I disagree with also.

Sorry you view disagreement as nasty. It isn't.