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This whole article made sense to me until the last couple grafs, when I thought about "censorship" and first amendment lawsuits about whitehouse.gov and asked myself, "why is it good for us to be able to comment on whitehouse.gov"? Don't we already have enough forums for this discussion?

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I don't see why whitehouse.gov shouldn't be allowed to delete comments within a specific defined set of published rules. If you're in a courthouse, and start hurling obscenities at the judge, or do anything "out of order", you can actually get thrown in jail. There are no free speech issues there, so why can't a similar (although hopefully less draconian) set of rules apply online?

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