Privacy & House Rules

Privacy: the short, honest version

We built this place to broadcast, not to surveil. Almost everything here is one way. You read, you listen, you leave. We don't track you, we don't run ad pixels, we don't profile you, and we have nothing to sell to anyone, least of all you.

The only time we hold anything personal is when you choose to join the conversation:

When you sign in. To comment or vote, you sign in with Google. Google hands us the basics so we know it's really you: your name, your email, and your avatar. That is all we get and all we want. We use it to attach your comment or your vote to you, and to keep bots and bad actors out. We do not email you marketing, we do not sell it, we do not share it, and we do not go digging for anything else.

Your comments. What you post, we store and we show. That is the entire point of posting.

Your Fuck???? votes. We record which way you voted so the Ledger can keep score. The running tally is public as a number. How you personally voted is not broadcast next to your name. [CONFIRM the build matches this: individual votes are not publicly attributed.]

What we do NOT collect: anything from people who just read or listen. No scripts following you around the internet, no data sales, no shadow profile. If you never sign in, you are a ghost to us, and that is perfectly fine by us.

Housekeeping, because honesty. Our host may keep short-lived technical logs, the ordinary stuff every web server sees, to keep the lights on and fend off abuse. We do not mine it to track you.

The other names in the room. A few services help run this place, and each has its own privacy terms: Google (sign-in), [YOUR HOSTING PROVIDER] (the site itself), and Riverside (which serves the audio). Where we had a choice, we took the more private road.

Want out? Ask us to delete your account, your comments, and your votes, and we will. Reach us at [YOUR CONTACT EMAIL].

[IF/WHEN THE NEWSLETTER GOES LIVE, ADD: The newsletter. If you hand us your email for the drop, we keep it only to send you the show. One click unsubscribes. We never sell it or lend it.]

House Rules: the longer, tighter version

This is our temple. Here is the one sign on the door.

Curse freely. We do. This is a profane house and proud of it. "Fuck yes," "fuck no," and a hearty "fuck????" are literally the format. Salt your language all you like. Cursing is not a violation here. It is the dialect.

Cruelty is the line, not language. We do not moderate words, we moderate harm. "This take is fucking ridiculous" is fair game. Dehumanizing a person or a group is not. Hate, slurs meant to wound, harassment, threats, and any sport made of making another human feel small: gone. The filter knows the difference between heat and hate, and so do you.

Basic decency is table stakes. Argue hard, disagree loud, change your mind out in the open, that is the whole point of the room. Attack the idea, never the person. [SWAP IN your exact on-air "table stakes" line if you want it verbatim here.]

How moderation actually works. To comment or vote, you sign in. No anonymous drive-bys. New comments are held for review before they go up. We read them. The decent ones post. The cruel ones do not, and we do not owe anyone a debate about it. This is not a free-speech-absolutist parking lot. It is a living room with a host, and the host keeps a broom.

No spam, no grifting, no bots. Self-promo, crypto pitches, "make $5k a week," and link farming get swept without ceremony.

We can remove anything, anytime. Our call, our house. If that chafes, the rest of the internet is right out there waiting.

The spirit behind every line of this: be human. That is the entire show.