“There Are No Official Bans on Honest Posting Anywhere. There Are Practical Bans Because of the Intimidation Effect of the Goon Tactics and Because of the Complacency of the Normals That Permits It to Continue.”

Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:

“I have no reason to believe that Reddit would be any different. Thanks but no thanks.”

You want there to be websites that allow posting about valuation based market timing. There are no bans on that subject at Reddit. But you won’t post there because a percentage of the people will disagree with you.

Let me speak
OK you can speak
I don’t want to speak because people will disagree with me.

There are no official bans on honest posting anywhere. There are practical bans because of the intimidation effect of the Goon tactics and because of the complacency of the Normals that permits it to continue.

I enjoy disagreement that is expressed in civil ways. I learn from it. But I believe that the laws that apply in every field of human endeavor other than the investment advice field to protect us from the ugly Goon tactics are good and necessary laws. When we discard those laws, we discard what makes us human.

I believe that we will find our way to the other side. I can’t guarantee it. But I believe it. I believe that we are in a fundamental sense a good people.

Rob