And it’s already going on here “voluntarily.”
Just the other day I had a post removed from the ABC comments in a story on the controversy over gay men wanting the ban on them donating blood lifted. There was nothing “hateful” about it. It was simply facts. And a great many other comments on that story were removed as well. You could tell they weren’t merely offensive comments, either, because the replies were often left, and they indicated the posts were eliminated due to the posters’ opinions in many cases.
I’ve also encountered web sites that simply make your posts invisible. Salon is one. In a story on this practice, they claim they monitor comments, and ones that don’t seem “helpful” to having a “good discussion” are removed.
http://digiday.com/publishers/salon-tamed-trolls-saved-online-comments/
Many other web sites are also discontinuing comments. CNN is a major one.
Farcebook allows the weight of complainers to prompt post removal. That’s how I came to be banned - leftists objecting to my defense of a private businessman ganged up on me.
No great loss since freedom of speech isn’t on their menu anyway..
What is permitted to be posted is pretty much up to the owner of the Web Site. It’s the government that’s not supposed to censor speech. What is scary is putting the UN in charge of the Internet as they are not hesitant to censor.