Taryn, maybe the difference between you and I is that you have the confidence that I'm not the type of person who would seek to make trouble for you off the site given the opportunity whereas I lack that confidence in you and some of your mates who are so keen to have real names published.

I have never attempted to make trouble for you, mostly I try and avoid you. You have attacked me on numerous occasions and yet continue to try and portray yourself as the victim.

You are one of the reasons I choose to continue using an alias online.

R0bert

I use my real first name and that is good enough.

Who in there right mind would consider posting thier real name here.

A/ Wouldnt matter if you lean to left or right, hackers love a challenge.

B/ Would you be prepared to even for the slightest chance to place your loved ones in harms way?

C/ Whenever you are on line there is always the risk of being hacked for your personal, financial and piece of mind. Dont make it easier for the whack jobs to track you down

A. Symeonakis, A very quick 5 minute check of your name revealed your address and organisations you belong to. You should fix this, I enjoyed your site some good hints.

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You know, if nothing else, this freedom of speech thing is a tad frustrating when one can only post twice on a thread in any 24hr period and must restrict each post to 350 words!

Yes, I realize why it's necessary, but it illustrates a point; FoS must by definition have its own restrictions..(how many words wasted there?)

No Mr Young. My work requires anonymity. I have a silent line and am not on the electoral role. I do not even use my real name online in ANY form. TarynW kiddo; that is not cowardice; trust me here; it is the opposite!

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OK.TJ; back to you.

R0bert:'holocaust deniers are wrong, but if condemned for the wrong reasons we lose'. Agreed.

But as TJ pointed out, she didn't do that. What she did was far worse.

TJ:" MYTHS(mass hallucination eh?) such as the extent and severity of the holocaust''.

TJ:'You can't even OPEN UP A CONVERSATION (so don't get the sh#**s when people respond)-,without being condemned for EVEN REMOTELY (Glod; I love that!!)-,suggesting the holocaust may have been blown out of all proportion'.

Foxy:'Hitler and Stalin believed in FoS - but only the speech they liked'. Hallelujah praise that girl!! That nails it! ABSOBLUUDYLUTELY!!

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So TJ;..........let us exercise that subjective FoS your kind covet.

"11,000.000 killed, 6,000.000 Jews"

Shall we go for a figure of 3,000,000 who were worked or starved to death; who were used for medical experimentation, who were exterminated in gas chambers?

Any advance on 3,000,000 TJ? How about 3,433,564 TJ?
(Teflon Jane btw).

Any advance? 4,000,000/........OK, OK,.. ONLY 1,700,001?.?.?.?.? TJ??

And of course, they were not the only ones to suffer were they TJ? Most of Europe was covered in flees and tick, had dysentery, were worked to death, medically experimented upon, and exterminated in gas chambers. WEREN'T THEY TJ?

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If you are too bluudy enamoured with your own elite arrogance you will not understand what I am saying.

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I vividly remember a lecture by a man in the 1970's. He was the lucky one; the surviving twin..., he only lost his arm.

Mengele amputated his arm and that of his twin;- and was going to swap them around. His brother bled to death. I remember him saying how they stopped his bleeding. He was made to sit on a chair by 'nurses'. His arm was on the chair next to him. He was so severely shocked that he sat next to his arm. HE WAS SIX!

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You will use your smart anointed point of view to point out that that you are not denying any of this; that I am clearly emotive (yes I am).

What you and your like miss in your pursuit of so-called Freedom of Speech is that makingthe holocaust less than, does NOT diminish its utter unforgivable evil.

And THAT TJ IS what you are trying to do. That IS your aim.

I tell you girl, until MY Freedom of Speech is cut short; and I am expecting GY to do that. I will exercise what you hold so dear and give you and yours a mega dose of the ....s.

I've been thinking about whether I would post under my real name or not... And, I've decided that if the Forum was to go in the direction of real names - I would have to bow out.

Anonimity - protects me and my family.

I would prefer to be judged by the content of what I write.
The rest - is a private matter - which I prefer to remain private.

Graham

Please, Please, Please do not consider for a mille-second the thought of including specific identification (ie: suburbs) of the contributors to this forum.

For example, I have had the misfortune of being threatened with defamation just this week by a contributing OLO imposter- oops I meant poster. Thank goodness my personal details are protected by OLO (aren’t they?) so I can continue to contribute to the forum without the fear of certain litigation happy people wanting to sue for defamation because their feelings got hurt.

I proudly use my real name to share my views and opinions- but that is just my preference. I cherish the privilege of “ Freedom of Speech” and using my real name does not curb my opinions and observations however having any specific identifying information certainly would. I don’t have a problem with others using whatever name they like if it stimulates healthy and considered discussion of issues.

There is one exception to this though. I do object to posters using the name of an organization to spout their opinions when the organization’s manifesto has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand. Perhaps this can be changed first before anything else!!

Finally, it is refreshing that opinions on OLO are not sanitized like they are in letters to the editor sections of newspapers- which does require name and suburb. Hell, half the fun of this forum is reading how posters respond with relative freedom to issues. I fear that this openness would be lost if real names & suburbs needed to be included. Besides, ultimately people do tell you who they are just from their comments alone. What name is used is irrelevant.