Originally Posted by
Dovster
In reply to GUWonder's questions:
People criticize overseas call centers (and their reps) as a group quite often on FT. Is that a TOS violation by the same "standard"?
It is not a violation to criticize call centers, which are organizations. Whether or no it is a violation to criticize their reps is dependent on what kind of criticism it is. If you say that foreign representatives have difficulty in understanding English, IMHO, it would not be. If you say they are idiots, it would be.
People criticize muslims as a group on FT quite often, is that a TOS violation by the same "standard"?
It is most definitely a TOS violation. Any defamation of a religious, racial, or sexual group is a violation (albeit under a different paragraph of the TOS).
People criticize racist profilers as a group on FT, is that a TOS violation by the same "standard"?
No, it is not a violation to criticize someone who is a racist. It is, however, a violation to call a member a racist simply because he differs from you on the value of profiling.
It's still unclear, given what's been enforced/not enforced as a TOS violation in the time since that language has been in play on FT.
So is it or is it not a TOS violation to criticize racist profilers (or their advocates), whether the racist profilers (or their advocates) are racists or not being another matter?
So is it or is not a TOS violation to criticize overseas call center reps, like when someone says they are "useless" or "worse than ___"?
Is it or is not a TOS violation to criticize members/membership of a political party or organization?
Is it or is it not a TOS violation to criticize journalists, bankers, regulators, elected officials, bureaucrats, frequent flyers, children, parents with children, mid-tier elites, entry-level elites, gate boarding agents, "riff-raff" travellers without status trying to board with FF elites, check-in agents, etc? Short of someone saying "all" XYZ are ____, is it a TOS violation or not? Is it only criticism that is a TOS violation (i.e., blanket praise, pom-pom crowd-type behavior -- and no I'm not speaking of artillery
-- is in the clear)?