Found a perfect article that explains perfectly what I feel about this issue.

http://www.carbonpoker.com/blog/anni...her-dukes-26/2
Negreanu is a grown man, even though his hyperactive, elfish demeanor may tell a different tale. He is responsible for his own actions and words. The mere fact Duke is looking for some sort of redeemable statement from his sponsors and is more offended they aren’t distancing themselves from him instead of looking to Negreanu for an apology is laughable at best.
For starters, Negreanu’s relationship is kismet: his sponsors need him, he needs his sponsors. Realistically, nobody is going anywhere in that relationship.
Secondly, the fact that Annie Duke is upset by how another site has handled itself is like John Wayne Gacy angrily calling somebody else a murderer or Cruella de Vil throwing paint on somebody else’s fur coat. If you want to comment on integrity, how about you start with writing an open letter to the loyal users of your site that got screwed by superusers.
Lastly, in that open letter, explain about how integrity is directly correlated to riding out a site sponsorship through public scandal and defined as resting easy at night with your endless, effortless Fortune as multiple users who have lost a combined $1.5 million that they painstakingly grinded out now have absolutely nothing.
Albeit a poor choice of words,

I think Negreanu was on to something.

To Annie's credit there are several posts in response to her blog that are not in favour of her position or actions and she has so far left them up.

http://www.annieduke.com/2010/08/off...om-pokerstars/

I particularly liked the one that read:

We were all hoping your blog entry read:
“I would like to thank Ultimate Bet for coming out publicly saying they don’t support cheating and deception. That is really all I wanted in the first place.”

I dislike both of them. Seems silly tho.

 

Originally Posted by ApesAreFun

Its just a word, right? How come people get so upset over words. I guess its just your culture to get easily offended.

You don't honestly believe this do you? I mean maybe your frame of reference allows you to not become upset over words but plenty of people from many different backgrounds do take offence to certain things and rightfully so. I really don't need to go down the list either its pretty common sense.

[C]an't [U]nderstand [N]ormal [T]hinking

Hmm. Apparently if you follow Annie Duke on Twitter and are a Glen Beck fan or FOX follower, she will dump you from following her. She had made a posting earlier how she wanted to "thank" Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin for representing the 'white man' in Washington.

AnnieDuke
Apparently 30 of my followers are big Glenn beck fans as they are now former followers :-)
It seems she had a few people complain or argue that they supported the cause and were subsequently removed/blocked from ever following her again. Wow, nice to see that she supports intolerance and hypocritical behaviour.

So basically if you don't agree with her opinions or political views... instead of discussing them as a mature adult or listening to opposing or different views, she simply will block and ignore you. Stalin did something like this once, but only more extreme.

 

Originally Posted by coolhandkev

She really is a fucking cunt

this

 

Originally Posted by Brighttail

Hmm. Apparently if you follow Annie Duke on Twitter and are a Glen Beck fan or FOX follower, she will dump you from following her. She had made a posting earlier how she wanted to "thank" Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin for representing the 'white man' in Washington.

AnnieDuke
Apparently 30 of my followers are big Glenn beck fans as they are now former followers :-)
It seems she had a few people complain or argue that they supported the cause and were subsequently removed/blocked from ever following her again. Wow, nice to see that she supports intolerance and hypocritical behaviour.

So basically if you don't agree with her opinions or political views... instead of discussing them as a mature adult or listening to opposing or different views, she simply will block and ignore you. Stalin did something like this once, but only more extreme.

Saw this as well. She obviously had them removed from her followers. Least we not for Mz Duke attended Columbia and Penn. Nothing like another elitist liberal snob that knows better than everyone else, and so open minded of her pretend free thinking self. I don't agree with Daniel's politics either, but I do appreciate his poker and what he does for the game, and consider myself a fan. As far as Duke, never was a fan, never will be. And Kathy Liebert should bitch slap her for claiming the female title.

 

Originally Posted by thereraise

she should have her cunt removed to decrease her cuntiness-- Ari Gold

hahaha

 

Originally Posted by ApesAreFun

I do. Americans get easily offended by words. Honestly, its a whole different culture in Norway. And esp in my part of Norway. I honestly can't believe that words like fuck get censored in lots of your television shows. Thank god for HBO, right?

+1

Yanks and their mock outrage is pretty tragic. I think its why most folk say Americans have no sense of humour, everything is too serious.

 

Originally Posted by ApesAreFun

I do. Americans get easily offended by words. Honestly, its a whole different culture in Norway. And esp in my part of Norway. I honestly can't believe that words like fuck get censored in lots of your television shows. Thank god for HBO, right?

Your comment was "how come people" stating that this applies to everyone in the world. Which as an example, I think a lot of people would get pissed to see any caucasian from any background drop the "N" word in Africa.

As far as censorship in America, yeah, I agree with you on that. However, even though women are technically equal here in the USA doesn't mean they are treated so. I have never been to Norway but from my experiences in life any culture from any region in the world acts like Men > Women.

And no, fuck HBO and any other television network. I avoid the tube like a plague!

fuck UB