As previously mentioned, I did decide to migrate to a new domain and webhost. In addition to the comment left in response to my original ICDSoft commentary, an ICDSoft representative contacted me via e-mail. The message conveyed considerable distress over my post and also mentioned an unspecified potential terms of use violation. Although the representative suggested that ICDSoft would never consider censorship of its users, the choice to address possible policy violations in a conversation about critical content was distressing to me.
Even though there have been no tangible repercussions from the incident with ICDSoft, the experience has made it clear to me that my actions can reflect on and impact other members of the lococo.org community in unintended ways. Migrating my content into its own namespace will channel future feedback directly to me and prevent possible confusion about whose opinion is being represented.
Censorship no…threatening you with policy violations? Oh yes! Personally, I can’t see the difference.
Unfortunately, the section found under ICDSoft’s “abuse” heading on it’s terms of use page seems to be fairly common among web hosting services. So their is plenty of censorship going on – they just prefer to call it something else.
Left by Sean on April 8th, 2006