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by rms 5962 days ago
What would the consequences be if you dramatically amped up the censorship here? Certainly it would improve discourse at the expense of inspiring lots of hatred...
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You think doing a lot of censorship would improve discourse? What do you mean? Just remove snarky comments? Fine, but those get strongly down voted anyway. Comments someone in charge doesn't agree with? Then it isn't discourse.

EDIT: I realize your comment was in response to PG's, but what is considered a "censor-able" comment? I've seen some discourse on here where someone legitimately called PG out. As I recall, the person turned out to be wrong but they weren't trolling (at least not at first) even though they were accused of it from the start. Should this have been censored?

It might also inspire unrest à la reddit when the HD-DVD keys were posted to the site.
I think it was Digg that failed at removing the keys. I remember Kevin giving a speech about failing to listen to his users.