I haven't read all of this yet, but let's just save it for now:

Some will say that the Internet is a public place, and if I don't want something abused, I shouldn't put it on the Internet. Well, that's true. It is also true that if I don't want to get mugged, I shouldn't leave my house, and if I don't want calls from telemarketers, I shouldn't have a phone. But I like leaving my house, I like having a phone, and I like having this web site.

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Also: I was all set to say how wonderful this was (as Mark says in this post, hack the end of the URL to correspond to a URL of your choice), but it doesn't seem to work on a/my Mac, i.e., it shows up, but I can't move the words around.

Link from Pop Culture Junk Mail

Diane has a good rant about censorship as it applies to posts on personally-owned message boards. It made me think of the awful Yahoo! message boards which I very occasionally visit--if you go to a page about a news story, there will often (always?) be a link below it to a message board purportedly about that topic.

It almost never is, though. Maybe it starts out that way, but it almost instantaneously degrades into a bunch of people insulting each other. It just makes me wonder who in the world has all this time???