I believe this site is well moderated & has a reasonable amount of freedom to express ideas, thoughts, etc. It is good to see what ideas, opinions and systems are from country and city regions quickly.
The Internet medium (be it this site or any other site) needs to be publicised more to other people interested. But it does restrict to tech savy people who own the equipment. It will never cover everyone.
I understand 'members only' areas of CFS and SES websites are planned, so that information can be distributed quickly from paid staff to volunteers. How this will work I am unsure.
Unfortunately text writing can be mis-interpreted very easily and emphasis placed on a section that was not intended by the author.
Hopefully the tolerance from hierarchy will continue, but I feel the silent monitors are beginning to discuss posting with people when they feel it is inappropriate. People are changing login names to continue being anonymous. This does worry me that we cannot speak freely.
The end of my rant......I feel better now.