This forum was created just two years after the internet became widely available to the public. It owes its success to its design, not an internet forum where any manner of issues, political and otherwise, can be debated, but rather exactly the opposite - the "friendliest place on the web for anyone with an RV or an interest in RVing". A place to come to reap the benefits of a large and diverse group with tremendous knowledge on one subject: RVing. To create such a place, and notify potential members of the rules to maintain it as such, is not remotely censorship. To raise this straw man argument is akin to walking into a German restaurant and complain that there is no Italian food.
Latitude has been given within this very message board, "The Shade Tree", to discuss topics outside of RVing. Nevertheless, all discussions, RV or otherwise, must ultimately, within the opinion of the moderators and Administrator, adhere to the basic tenet that this, as opposed to the thousands of other venues available, is a friendly place for friendly, non-confrontational discussion, primarily of RVs. With due respect to the OP of this topic, who certainly had good intentions when he asked a simple question, newcomers do not come to the RV Forum for the type of discussion into which this topic has devolved. As this is a moderated forum, something known to every member and the terms of which were agreed by every member, at some point decisions are made by said moderators and the Administratos as to whether a discussion no longer fits the intent of the forum. It is these very decisions, perhaps unpalatable to those looking for lively political or other debate, that have led to the success of this forum, now over 25 years old.
