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The moderators are discussing this issue.
There is a case for just stopping ALL political threads. However, what exactly counts as political? DRM threads get political at times and its not always easy to see where a line should be drawn.
Last year we tried moving all serious political threads into a forum called the Conservatory. It was a disaster, and generated more rancor and bitterness than we had ever seen on MR. Alex eventually decided to close it because it had nothing to do with our central mission: to promote mobile reading it all its forms.
Now we have a resurgence of overtly political topics and some people have been very intemperate. We'd like to find a solution that allows members as much freedom as possible, without causing gratuitous offence to others. This is more difficult than you might think. For example, we had to ban the so-called "Rattler" earlier because he turned out to be a sockpuppet for Recluse.
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