Okay, here's my dilemma ...
I've just been running a forum (to do with collecting football figures, I'll spare you all the irrelevant details) and it ran for well over 8 years until ending in disaster quite recently. It also contained a Sports & Social section where some of the members who personally knew each other could talk football/current affairs etc... This proved to be generally popular but eventually nobody dared to say anything because of the PC brigade.
For example, about this time last year somebody wished a happy St. George's day to all and I swear that panic gripped the place!!! You had all the drips saying stuff like "I believe all cultures are equally valid" and one chap even accused the original poster of being "inflammatory", so you can imagine what happened when I casually mentioned Halal Burgers the other day
Anyway, due to being constantly reminded of the T&Cs by some of our more “touchy-feely” members (one of whom, a Social Worker from Essex, accused me of “incitement to racial hatred”) I just pulled the plugs. However, I'd like to get something of a similar nature up and running again but because of anti-free speech laws in the UK I'm sure it would end in a similar fashion. It's quite a ridiculous situation TBH, considering that 90% of the board is totally uncontroversial (and no-one is obliged to go into the S&S section anyway!) but we all know how these PC “enforcers” and general busybodies operate
Can anyone point me in the right direction here? For example, I believe boards hosted in the USA protect free speech to a greater extent, so can any of our American friends perhaps recommend a good hosting company? Obviously, I couldn't afford anything like Skadi but we did have over 1300 members, just to give you an idea. Something else worth pointing out is that I have very limited computer skills and the one I've left behind was just a very basic, free board that my son set up for me and showed me how to use.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers.
G.
PS, I hope I posted this in the right section!
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