[Admin Moderator]

Censorship is a government issue which doesn't apply to PRIVATE PROPERTY. Get a life.

[ReignOfError]

The post to which you responded got fried, but I can guess the gist, and use it as an excuse to launch into an abridged version of one of my favorite rants. I think it's almost old enough to shave by now. I've been online since about 1988, and the word "censorship" is the most overused and underunderstood term by such a wide margin that it can't see the second-place contender over the horizon.

If you try to peaceably express your opinon in a public place and the government prevents you from doing so, that is censorship. If you try to express your opinion using my licensed airwaves, printing presses or Web servers, that is editing.

I am a near-absolutist on the First Amendment, but like most interesting constitutional questions, this comes down to conflicting claims of rights -- and if I, as the owner of a printing press or Web site or broadcast station, am forced to repeat your message, that infringes on my right to express my own. You have every right to your voice and absolutely no right to mine.