{"id":3600,"date":"2009-07-12T21:13:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T01:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/2009\/07\/12\/re-official-response-from-the-tes-board-regarding-complaint\/"},"modified":"2009-07-12T21:13:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T01:13:42","slug":"re-official-response-from-the-tes-board-regarding-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2009\/07\/12\/re-official-response-from-the-tes-board-regarding-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"RE: Official Response from the TES Board Regarding Complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here was my response on this Fetlife thread<\/a> to the official TES response.<\/p>\n

I will take this opportunity to say that as a long time TES member I am pleased with how this situation is being handled. One of the responsibilities of an organization like TES is to act as a custodian of the privacy and membership rights of those within it.<\/p>\n

Absolutely serious allegations should be addressed in due process, but it is critical that the organization not allow a mere accusation to force it’s hand in denouncing a member or publishing otherwise private information about them. Were that to be the case it would become a full time sport for many to simply accuse those they didn’t like and force a never ending round of condemnation and investigation.<\/p>\n

It is critical that process be followed with careful deliberation – never less so than when there is pressure from a howling mob to cut corners and get straight to the lynching.<\/p>\n

As someone who lives, educates and plays at the margins of what is accepted in "mainstream" BDSM I have always been please that when someone threatened to "take it to TES" and "get them to blackball me" I was secure int he knowledge that TES as an organization takes disciplinary action very seriously and that it takes a bit more than public pressure to make them act in haste.<\/p>\n

Thank you for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here was my response on this Fetlife thread to the official TES response. I will take this opportunity to say that as a long time TES member I am pleased with how this situation is being handled. One of the responsibilities of an organization like TES is to act as a custodian of the privacy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[286],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}