Rowan Free Press

The Rowan Free Press, at rowanfreepress.com, is up and running. We look forward to folks feeling free to post here and expressing themselves with their actual names or, preferably, with screen names. Your opinions and facts are just as important either way. We recognize most every forum and message board in the USA and and the rest of the free world implores visitors to use screen names to protect their security online and in real life. PC Magazine and the "Dummies Guide to Internet Security" cautions folks to use screen names. All the large and important Newspapers do. Facebook accounts are easily falsified and can be made seaworthy within a few days. They will be undoubtly used to navigate barriers to free speech elsewhere. There are many who can't post under their actual names for fear of reprisal, for wise personal security reasons, and for the potential repercussions at their job and in their community. Folks have suffered identity theft and been physically attacked for not using screen names. The nom de plume has been with us for centuries and was popularized by Mark Twain, George Sand, Lewis Carroll, George Orwell and many others. We ask all who participate to use common netiquette in posting. There will be zero tolerance for "name calling", abusive behavior, slander, inuendo, racist remarks, religiously intolerant remarks, and spamming. Civility and politeness are the order of the day. The Rowan Free Press