You're entitled to your opinion, Daniel. Of course, you are not going to be banned for expressing your view. You certainly can criticize Chaim if you wish. We all see every week that about 50% of the questioners on the Ask JTF program disagree with Chaim on one thing or another. Chaim answers them respectfully even if he happens to disagree with something they have said.
But in my opinion, what you are saying is factually incorrect and logically flawed.
This forum is ten months old. Chaim has VERY RARELY intervened. He has trusted Yacov and myself and the other members here to make 99% of the decisions.
Only recently, Chaim felt that he had to intervene.
When you have a member calling for the murder of white women and Christians, that is something Chaim is not going to tolerate. Chaim was surprised, and even shocked, that this was allowed to continue. When Jeffguy finally took appropriate action, Jeffguy's decision was reversed and this sick member was invited back. Is Chaim supposed to be silent when the forum allows someone who repeatedly calls for mass murder against innocent people to post messages?
In another incident, Chaim repeatedly requested that there be a clear message in the beginning of the Ask JTF threads limiting the number of questions or comments, and requested that it be made clear that the questions or comments must be short. Surely, Daniel, you are not going to dispute that Chaim has a right to set the ground rules for the broadcast that he does. Chaim believes, and I believe, that the long questions and the multiplicity of questions, harm the program by making it too long. And when Chaim has to spend so much time reading the questions, it's frankly not the most interesting part of the program.
But Chaim's requests were simply ignored for at least two weeks in a row.
Then came the posting on the forum of two members' IPs. Ever since I worked with Chaim in JDL in the 1980s, Chaim has always been a zealous defender of members' privacy. Even if someone violates the rules and has to be banned, Chaim would not want his IP or his personal information revealed.
All of these incidents have led Chaim to the conclusion that changes have to be made. Chaim ran the JDL very professionally, Chaim does at least 10 broadcasts a week professionally, and Chaim wants the JTF forum to be run professionally. The Hebrew forum IS being run very professionally, thank G-d. But the English forum requires some improvements.
After all, we're not just here to chat. We aspire to become a mass movement that will change history.
We will never be perfect. There will always be flaws here and there. But there is no reason why we cannot have the same high standards that exist on the Hebrew forum. In fact, 90% of the members on the Hebrew forum are teenagers. Can't we have the same sense of idealism, common purpose and commitment to professionalism that JTF's Israeli teenage members have? Of course we can! And with G-d's help, we will.
