I would make a comment (ha! I'm defiant, me!), but I think GogDog's sig pic sums it all up more than succinctly.  

 

Is it me or is Hasbro taking things waaay too seriously? What´s next, they will sick the KGB on us?

 

I'd love to see this debated in a court of law. Someone's thoughts is violating a copyright? Who has the right to control what someone thinks? Yeeeesh...this board is complete Hasbro propaganda.

 

Well, that's the thing. No one is saying it's a legal issue. TFW is complying to maintain a good-standing relationship with Hasbro.

 

The mod himself wrote that it is violating a copyright - thereby stating it is a legal issue. If you're right and it isn't a legal issue then the mods are simply abusing their power stopping free speech just to appease Hasbro and allow us to talk about only what Hasbro wants us to talk about.

 

Well, I don't necessarily disagree with you, but there is no "Right to free speech" on a message board. The site owners decide the rules, and whomever doesn't like it doesn't have to post here. I'm more frustrated with the fact that Hasbro is being a little overzealous with their takedown requests.

 

Way to joke about a joke post there! Although if you aren't joking ... (shakes head sadly)

 

 

Hint to Superion33: look who edited ShadowStitch's post. It wasn't a mod.  

-airfox

 

Shhhhhh, irate posters like to be wrapped up in thier own anger instead of be aware that they got goofed by someone editing their own post to look like a mod to parody Hasbro. Mods don't actually have to abuse their power to blatantly accuse them of censoring you when you are on the internetz!

Edit: and when you play in someone else's sandbox, you can either do what they say or GTFO. Hasbro gives our fandom a pretty wide berth and allows parts of our fandom to flourish even though hasbro has complete right and authority to disallow it, especially our Fanart and Kitbashing communities. So in return, it is reasonable for us in the fandom to at least play nice with hasbro's request and jot jab a thumb in their eye when possible. Technically they could shutdown every aspect of the fandom and control it if they wished (look into Starwars and Simpson's fandoms) but they don't. If you think the censorship and propaganda in the TF fandom is bad then you are really ignorant to how good we have it compared to other fan communities.

 

wait, wait, wait.... a 2 foot tall devastator Toy?!?!?! OMG I will be buying that!

 

My sig is like a fine film, it has many interpretations, all of which are valid.

 

 

But... but... RAAWRR THOUGHT POLICE!!11!