This site was created to allow for the presentation of facts and conversation in a civil manner. We believe that not much is to be gained from friction and that cooler heads prevail. Nevertheless, we recognize that the topics discussed on this site are often those that people are very passionate about. They are also, very often, literally life and death discussions. In such a debate, it is not uncommon for people to become agitated and combative.
We also recognize that we aren't the arbiter of the truth and therefore don't determine what's "lies" or "misinformation". We trust our reader's common sense and with our format of open dialogue will be able to decide for themselves what's more true than not.
Nevertheless, there are "red lines" that we WILL censor, as per the following:
To become a writer on LRN you must accept our writing code:
1. You accept all writer's right to an opinion and to express it on our site. You will not attempt to censor or suppress anyone's voice.
2. You will not write and you WILL be censored for the following:
Call to hate - You may not single out any person or group for hatred. You may discuss, in strong terms, the hatred of an ideology, but must not extend that to the people who subscribe to it.
Call to violence - You may never call for violence against any person or group of people. Period. You may advocate, in strong terms, the removal from power of certain groups but may not condone the use of violence to do so.
Profanity - you may not use words considered by most to be "curse" words. This includes any words that the average person wouldn't use in the presence of children.
Dehumanizing - you may never refer to any person or group of people with a de-humanizing term. Examples would be to refer to them as animals, i.e. rodents, pigs, etc...or objects, i.e. garbage, human waste, dirt, etc...
Doxxing - You may never post personal contact information about anyone. Period.
If you violate our code of writing ethics you will be notified to remove the offending content. If you do not do so within 15 minutes, we will either modify or remove it. You will also lose any earnings from the offending content. We will also reserve the right to remove your writing privileges on the site.
