Quick question for the Cables Don't Make a Difference Crowd.

@rockysantoro

If audiogon was the government, they would be banned from adopting your position. It’s called viewpoint based discrimination. It leads to dictatorship.

They are not the government, so they are free to ban posts and do as they please. They do in fact do so. Tammy has already removed many of mine, of which I will have something to say in the future.

in the meantime, conversely, what’s to prevent someone from adopting the position of saying that people who promote $5M cables should be banned, lest they continue to brainwash people into spending unnecessary amounts of money?

Censorship is never wise. (Allegedly) False speech is not fought by removing it. It’s fought with more speech. Then people decide.

unreceivedogma

I stopped believing in the Catholic Church at age 9. I stopped believing in God at age 13. Do you really think that I’m going to genuflect in The Church of Audio ... I wonder if this offends Tammy and whomever in this crowd jerks her chain: let’s see how long this post lasts ... they are free to ban posts and do as they please. They do in fact do so. Tammy has already removed many of mine ...

That's an interesting list of "accomplishments."

@unreceivedogma -

      To be honest: no, I did not view the vids.

      My response was just my list of favorite quotes, from prople that could have known better, had they not been blinded by their own ideas/opinions/biases.

If audiogon was the government, they would be banned from adopting your position. It’s called viewpoint based discrimination. It leads to dictatorship. 

                      Where have you been for the past 3+ years?

      The, "government" has been trying (repeatedly) to censor/squelch any speach, contrary to their agenda/goals/benefit. 

                                                     ie:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-establishes-a-ministry-of-truth-disinformation-governance-board-partisan-11651432312       

                                                    and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation_Governance_Board#:~:text=On%20May%2018%2C%20the%20board,Alejandro%20Mayorkas%20disbanded%20the%20board.

          And, per the evidence: conspired with the media to do the same.

                         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKbjrFMDvtM     

                 Not to mention, the laptop from... well: you already know!

                         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdlqPIlF2gw

Censorship is never wise. (Allegedly) False speech is not fought by removing it. It’s fought with more speech. Then people decide.*

                                         * I couldn't agree more!

                                     MAKE '1984' FICTION AGAIN!

     Feynman was and will remain, my favorite lecturer (yeah: I'm that old).

     He mentioned often (and: I took to heart) his favorite Rule of Life: "Never stop learning!"

     For all his genius, he never grew overly confident in his beliefs.    The perfect obverse to the Dunning-Kruger sufferer.

     ie:  “I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing.  I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.”

     and: “I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not absolutely sure of anything.”

     Tesla is probably my favorite innovator, who (despite the incessant, projectile vomit, from his day's naysayers), took the World, kicking and screaming, into the 20th century, with his inventions.

                                                  His thoughts: 

     “Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.”

     “All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combatted, suppressed, only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.”

@rockysantoro I can't tell if your post is sarcastic