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In Reply to: Is The Family using MovingOn for cyber-war? posted by Curious on September 25, 2004 at 23:54:56:
Before this spins too far out of control, let me just say that I am not about to "investigate" any of the MovingOn participants and here is why.
If Sheryl is a Family member, if she is an SG, she is welcome. MovingOn.org is for people born and raised in the Family and participation is not regulated by someone's beliefs or whether or not they are Family members. How on earth could we enforce that anyway? Some people who have left the Family adhere to the group's beliefs more than some people who are still currently members. Despite the "criteria for being a true exmember" lists that circulate on all the exmember sites, I think those ideas are ridiculous. People move on (or not) in their own time and on their own schedule.
Violating the privacy of a participant is not permitted and I have explained this to Sheryl and removed the personally identifiable information.
http://www.movingon.org/article.asp?sID=1&Cat=10&ID=2010#27848
Over the four years MovingOn.org has been online, many current Family members have visited and participated on the web site. Many of them have since left the Family, although others have not. MovingOn was designed as an open, uncensored and "real" dialogue on growing up in the Family and life for us now. To limit discussion to only one viewpoint would be to do exactly what we accuse the Family of doing.
Also, almost everyone (including myself) has been suspected of being a "Family spy" or "sympathiser" by other participants on that web site at some point. A bit of paranoia is just part and parcel of a discussion forum for our particular demographic. The Family obviously reads MovingOn, since they quote us all the time in their publications. If members or representatives wish to engage in discussion, that's terrific. We have been asking for this very thing for a long time now.
The only time anyone is "investigated" on MovingOn is if a minor may be in danger and this happens privately and quietly.
