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Here is my own:
http://www.power-independence.com/
If I Google Power Independence my forum is on the top of the list.
http://therealnews.com/t2/interact/forum/
That is the Real News Network forum. I just started posting in that forum.
http://anarchism.net/forum/index.php
That is the Anarchism.net Forum. The moderator is very good at defending his site from aggressive types, types that are obviously bent on nothing but destruction.
I was active on The Austrian Economic forum. I do not see that forum on the WEB, my link is broken to it.
I was active on the Fully Informed Jury Association forum. The people policing that forum edited all my work on it, and blocked my I.P. number, all they had to do was ask me to stop posting. I know the power a forum operator has, and even if I could remain on a forum where they ask for discussion, but punish people for discussion, I see no point in using that power. Once the forum operator decides that I am no longer welcome on his, or her, public forum, then it isn't a public forum anymore, as far as I am concerned. If it is a private forum then it should advertise as one, and the rules should state, the truth, and the rules should state such things as: "If I don't like what you say, for any reason, you are not welcome, you will be removed, no exceptions."
I had also posted on the following forum; but the forum operators deleted my longest running, mostly one-sided, discussion - effort, and they did so without notice. It was an up-to-date running commentary, my typical offerings for discussion, that lasted for years, racking up many page views, and then it was gone.
http://forum.freestateproject.org/index.php?action=search2
That thread was the first thread I started. It was immediately moved from the front page to miscellaneous, off-topic, and on the off-topic page it grew to the size it grew, and then I started a new topic titled Joe's law, on the off-topic page, to save anyone the cost of moving it. My Joe's Law topic ran for years, but recently it disappeared. I could ask the moderators if a mistake was made, but the point of my posting is to find people willing to discuss controversial topics, and avoid resorting to deceit and political games, and in that effort the Free State Project forum wasn't bearing much fruit. I did get some help, and some credit, from a few members, but for the most part, I think, the readership wanted something for nothing.
My Fully Informed Jury Association experience convinced me of the need to mirror my efforts on new forums, so I can keep a record of what happens if the forum operators decide to resort to abject censorship - for the crime of posting unwelcome words.
I can also add that I spent a lot of time, and effort, on the Austrian Economics Forum, but, coincidentally or not, when I began an effort to question the 911 inside job, my membership ended. The strange part of that experience is such that the Austrian Economics Forum operators kept a public record of their abuse of their power on their forum for years. I suppose it was left on as a example, to others, as to what happens if someone doesn't read from the script.
It was no surprise, to me, to read from various places that some people actually hire people to troll forums, where now there are professional forum assassins. To have imagined such a thing would have confessed lunacy, on my part, but to confirm that suspicion, by way of actual confessions from those people in that business, is altogether different. I'm not saying there are professional forum trolls, character assassins, I'm saying that I've seen evidence suggesting that such a market has evolved, and that it isn't a surprise to me.