I am actually glad there is a place where kiddie diddlers can discuss kiddie diddling. Not because I engage in that, or in any way approve or condone it, but because it is in line with the ideals and philosophy behind our Bill of Rights

To "censor" is to review something and to choose to remove or hide parts of it that are considered unacceptable.

Your personal definition of "censorship" simply isn't shared by most people. You can admit that and move on, or keep insisting "words mean what I want them to mean", but the latter won't lead to successful communication on the topic.

The First Amendment is about government infringing that right. Private censorship is still censorship, and it can potentially become as big of a threat to social progress as speech repressed by the government. For example. lots of social issues have been avoided in mainstream media because of corporate/political incentives to stay quiet about the subject. On the flip side, there is censorship that most would find totally acceptable. I'm quite fine with not seeing the genitals of a man who was streaking through a stadium. But that's still censorship, and we need to acknowledge that, and consider it as such.

Where do you draw the line? You can't post anything on the Web without using someone else's infrastructure - even if you host your own server, you still need to get it connected to a commercial ISP. Is it okay for them to refuse the connection because it would be giving you a platform to say something that you don't want to say? Free speech is pretty meaningless if you can only exercise it in your own home - you shouldn't be able to force everyone to listen, but you should be able to give everyone the opportunity to listen if they choose to, and that's pretty hard without someone giving you a platform.

I certainly don't intend to control the policies of private businesses -- but I also don't have to support businesses whose policies I don't like.

There are studies that indicate that the abundance of porn, including violent porn, drives down rates of actual sexual violence. Men who would otherwise act on their violent sexual desires are mollified by watching somebody else pretend to do it and jerking off.

Sources? I know that the church shooter guy was interested in neo-nazis online, but what other ones are you talking about? I actually think that you're just making that up, though, so you don't have to respond.

Well said, I will definitely be quoting you on that one.

Don't like /r/CoonTown? Don't go there. I don't.

Life is full of unpleasant things. Making it illegal to talk about them does not make them go away; it just allows them to grow in the dark.

Only $6 billion to construct 380 miles of sci-fi-technology high speed rail using entirely new technology? Really?

When the UK government is prepared to spunk $45 billion on constructing 335 miles of bog standard railway track for HS2?

Why would we place settlements on Mars far apart?