Ominous warning from Jack to DLT

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Its important to understand why this board exists in the first place. There are a large number of "experts" who present themselves as authorities on distance learning whose actions go beyond what is decent and proper. They harass people and try to push their agendas in the public arena. They are well connected and have friends in very high places. This is why they are able to push through legislation at the state and Federal levels in the United States and abroad. They have access to the media and when they talk they are usually listened to. And should anyone try to argue against them or expose their activities, they become targets themselves.

While I may not agree 100% with the views of everyone here, I believe it is important to have one refuge for those giving opposing views.

IMHO there is more freedom on this board than ther ever was on Degree Discussion or any of those other boards.

Those boards exist...to make money by either promoting or demoting providers in the field...it is the norm online, no matter how loud they bark to have us believe otherwise. 99% "advice" sites in any field are run by phonies and frauds who get their orders from outside sources or inside middlemen.
It's a gigantic sale machine...and the bonus of a "respectable public facade" for the likes of gay teen porn king Thomas Chip White is a marginal one. The various doctor fifteenschwein are only sock puppets in a game bigger than themselves based on a code of silence: if you fart, I'll pretend it smells like roses and you'll do the same for me, too.
I had a vicious character assassination attempt played on me by people who -only days earlier- wanted me to write a book on the subject -yes, that's right-...it came out some third party factual info I was putting out were being circulated around the niche and were definitely bad for business...of those seemingly nice non-profit sites who bark until the moon turns blue how they are open for your sake only.
That's the new wil west of advertisement: fooling people so that they won't realize it's just another infomercial.
Online the con is always on.
I never sought out churches online, where everybody agrees with anybody...I don't exactly care...I tell it as I see it...I may be wrong, right and anything in between...at the end of the day, it won't make any real difference in the number of cars I have to park to get to the next paycheck.