Is anyone else uncomfortable with the way MNHQ controls the debate?

[Bestseller]

I know it's their site etc etc but some of the things that seem to be taboo are important issues that need to be discussed. If the people with the most extreme views feel they can never be heard, it just entrenches the views and means they never get to hear an opposing or more rational view point.

Agreed
Threads get deleted too easily these days.

Think about the most extreme views you can. Would you want to be on a site like that? Holocaust denying, pro paedophilia, bestiality, etc...

It really depends what the most extreme views are.
Should people be allowed to discuss child abuse? Extreme terrorist beliefs? Racism?
How much detail?
Why is it our job to educate them?

What particularly did you have in mind?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3399927-to-think-that-the-following-opinion-may-get-me-banned?msgid=81939230 There was this thread earlier.

What taboo subjects do you want to debate?

No, you're right some things are too extreme, but I thought the thread about the Huddersfield abuse that was just taken down was a valuable discussion and whilst some of the views were unpalatable, the thread was doing a decent job of regulating itself.

"We" can't pretend these things don't happen and similarly, a view that all Pakistani men are abusers should be challenged.

What’s with the cloak and dagger, maybe I’m not as bright as I think I am but what on earth are you and the other thread hinting at??
I’m assuming more trans stuff??

I've seen nothing to make me think "MNHQ controls the debate". Indeed quite the opposite.

I think HQ is pretty moderate. I understand there are other forums on which racists and xenophobes can rant, people discuss their sexual fetishes etc and, for all I know, libel people with no evidence and cast aspersions on character. Its possible to criticise recent events without descending into any of that and if it does, it gets removed. Obviously, why would MN want to be sued?

I do think threads are taken down too much because they do become bun fights.

But that’s the nature of the beast. I did prefer it when you could have a big old bun fight and just ‘ahem’.

Yes, I prefer more freedom of speech

Bestseller it's true some of the posts on the thread you referred to were a bit inflammatory, but I'm not sure why they couldn't have been deleted and the vast majority of others left. If you're interested there's another, mostly reasonable thread here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3399676-Tonights-headline-news-Asian-gangs-So-what-next-for-these-young-girls-Triggering

Overall it's not so much the deletions which bug me as the very selective way it's sometimes done, but of course MNHQ can do what they please with their own site and nobody's forced to use it

Im glad they deleted that thread I thought it was a very racist OP. Im not saying this sort of thing cant be debated and posters in that thread made good points but I don't want racist OPs on MN.