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Oh, knock it off, you. :)

Maybe he's PFAL Mike?

I was being rhetorical. "His" has a capital H, so I could only be referring to one Person (or two or three, depending on your theology).

There has to be a balance between letting people run rampant on one hand and nitpicking every post with a creative way of inserting a dirty word on the other. There are a few words in this thread that could probably use a little moderating. Sometimes we err on the side of free speech, and sometimes we err on the side of cordiality. The posts we're specifically discussing haven't been edited, after all. But if anyone doesn't want a comment from a mod on why they're not allowed to use certain words, don't invite the mods to comment by calling them "paranoid" for censoring a few words we wouldn't say in His presence.

How about showing a little maturity and using sensible words instead of going for the base, especially as you are presenting yourself as a Christian while trying to figure out ways to use inappropriate language? We censor words because we want a clean site. If anyone should be expected to agree with that judgment, we would think it would be the Christians on this board.

Mike is correct. At least, he's correct about one thing: namely, that this discussion belongs on the other thread.

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This is not a Christian site. It is a place for any person interested in discussing The Way International, from whatever perspective they bring. It's primarily for former members, but you don't have to be a former member to post here. You can be a current member. You can be a "never been way" human being. If your process of recovery is a Christian one, God bless you. If your process of recovery leads you away from Christianity, it is not this site's mission to change your mind or heart on that. Christians are welcome here, and welcome to share their views. Non-Christians are welcome here, and welcome to share their views. Play nice. :)

We have no intention of censoring anyone. :) However (and seriously)... Several recent posts have caused concern at Greasespot Café because of extended quotes of copyrighted material. We are not lawyers, and we don’t pretend to be. Internet law when it comes to copyrights can be tough to navigate, but that shouldn’t stop us from establishing some ground rules about what we should and should not be doing. According to U.S. copyright law: Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include— 1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; 2. the nature of the copyrighted work; 3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and 4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. Using this as our framework, Greasespot Café suggests the following: News articles and research articles may be quoted at some reasonable length (a few paragraphs), but not in their entirety. Please, if you’re going to post a news story, post a portion of it, and add a link to the original story. Do NOT copy and paste whole sections of text from books. A line, a paragraph, even several paragraphs can be okay, IF you are commenting on the subtance of those paragraphs. You can’t just post all these things for our reading pleasure. Do not quote an entire chapter of a copyrighted work unless you have the written permission of that work’s author. (This does not apply to works that are in the public domain, though why anyone would want to copy and paste Oliver Twist is anyone’s guess). Many news organizations remove their photos from the web after a certain amount of time passes (the same goes for articles). Newspapers are very protective of their rights when it comes to photographs, but the reality is that people hotlink to photos all the time. If you’re going to do it, please provide a link to the page where you found the photo. Most of the uses of photos on Greasespot seem to comply with either fair use or standard practice on message boards. With as many posters as we have, our inability to police everyone does not absolve any legal obligation we may have. Quite simply, we’re not lawyers. If any site contacts us to complain about the use of one of their images on this message board, we will have no choice but to remove the image immediately and without notice. To sum up: Do not quote entire articles. Quote the relevant portion and link to the rest. This goes for opinion articles as well. Do not quote entire chapters of books. Quote a relevant portion if you’re going to comment on it. Hotlink sparingly. Our use of photos and music has not been intended to infringe on anyone’s copyright, but simply put, if we hear from the owners and they want us to remove anything posted here, we will do so immediately and, again, without warning. We’re going to hold to this as policy as much as is reasonable. We’re not trying to be cops, nor do we ask anyone else to police each other’s posts on this matter. Consider this informal, and subject to change as our knowledge of Internet and copyright law increases. Thanks for understanding. The Mods.

I will be removing photos as I can from all but the last few pages, and purging regularly, just to play it safe. It'll take a while (there's 43 pages of catching up to do!)

They have the right to post it or plaster it wherever they want. Under fair use, we have the right to reproduce part of it for purposes of discussion, but we do not have the right to reproduce ALL of it without their permission.

I'm not sure how the Jack Chick folks would feel about another web site publishing their tracts in their entirety. In the future, if possible, publish a couple of pages and link to the rest.

Folks, please be careful about posting lengthy excerpts or entire articles, especially without any indication of the original site on which it appears. There are copyright laws. Link to the articles, quote the points you want to make sure we get, but trust us to go to the link and read the entire article for ourselves. Thx.