To the moderators, and everyone:

I am writing this thread because I am a bit puzzled. The reason behind this is that last night I was looking through one of my thread discussions and happened to click onto the name Anand-Haqq, and discovered that the person had been banned in the last couple of days. I am wondering why and, as far as I am aware there has been no mention of this banning. When there have been bannings it is usually posted up in the thread on bannings, and with a reason This poster had written a fair amount of posts(95) and, even when someone(Zenny) had only been using the site for about a day or so, it was mentioned. So, I am left wondering why has Anand-Haqq been banned, and why is not mentioned at all.

I can understand that this person had an unusual writing style and a point of view which may have been a bit different to most expressed on the site, but it was not as if the writing was illiterate or incoherent. The style had broken sentences, but was fairly poetic, and I think that it fell more in the tradition of writers, such as Rumi. Perhaps such views are seen as being outside of the discourse of philosophy, but it is not as if each post on the site is written like a philosophy paper, and many topics which are a bit outside philosophy are explored

It has left me wondering about what is acceptable and what is taboo? I know that there are guidelines and rules, but I am thinking what had this person done to be considered as deserving to be banned. I had seen some objection to something Anand-Haqq wrote on the thread about whether it is necessary to believe in God to be good. But, on that thread there are so many comments which are not really relevant, and all kinds of extreme views have been expressed. I can understand that posts may be deleted, but I understood banning was usually only done as a last resort. Of course, there may be factors of which I am not aware.

Beyond the banning of this member, I do wonder if there are certain views which are taboo on the site. Personally, I query all forms of dogmatiism. This is a bit different to the discussion about what is Woke because it is about the expression of ideas, rather than about race, physical characteristics or personal attributes. I think that it even goes beyond the issues of this site, so I am raising it as a discussion of ideas and what gets silenced generally. We live in a pluralistic society, but are people allowed to express all ideas freely?