Monday 15 June 2020

No politics on QRZ.com?

When someone with prominence in a field of activity - such as Fred Lloyd of QRZ.com - tells you something, like it or not, you have to look, read, absorb and decide.

Amongst a long rant leading to a banning of GB9BLM, Fred said:

"QRZ does not engage in political proselytizing and never in our 25 years have we supported any political cause.  We openly deny such speech to all without regard to any sociopolitical affiliation.  Your cause is no different in that regard."

Really?

During a discussion that was kindly raised on QRZ.com to calmly look at whether GB9BLM was valid (which of course, it is), the callsign K3XR appeared, making there what seemed to be an innocuous comment.

K3XR was later picked out on a Reddit discussion as a callsign page that is active, not banned, and most certainly, by any definition, "political".

For many reasons, it's really worth looking at K3XR's page; believe me, it is!

So, that completely kills the idea that QRZ.com doesn't allow politics, whether it be on their gutter-level forums or as an individual callsign.  K3XR's broadcast to the world seems to rather go against quite a bit of QRZ.com's policies: