"Censorship" for the terminally retarded.

Well, you knew that was going to happen. No sooner do I suggest that Richard Evans has worn out his welcome here than I get a comment, shrieking about "censorship" and "freedom of speech" and equally asinine accusations. I deleted the comment, but now I regret it because it was such a splendid example of the lack of critical thinking skills in the dumbass-o-sphere.

Let me explain censorship. The following is what I received -- verbatim -- when I registered once upon a time at Joel Johannesen's septic tank of a blog "Proud to be Canadian." Appreciate, if you will, the noble open-mindedness and willingness to partake in honest dialogue in the following:

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If you're a LIBERAL, please remember that:

** You are a guest at ProudToBeCanadian ("PTBC"); and it is a privately-owned facility, and yes, privately-owned things are still allowed in this country;

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** We're under no obligation to provide you with a platform, at our expense, to rant on and on about liberalism, the "Canadian value" of abortion, smoking pot, socialism, or any other liberal-left ideal. Nor are we obligated to even allow you to post any of your comments at all whatsoever, and we may delete them if they break our very reasonable rules, and we are under no obligation to consult with you first;

** And most of all remember that character assassination attempts or even personal insults against the site owner, blogger(s), columnists, or any commenter --are simply not tolerated. Nor are rude, insulting, bigoted cliché remarks made in blanket form against the group at PTBC or any portion of them, nor conservatives generally for that matter. If you type "Nazi" or "heil" or "Hitler" or "fascist", you will be banned for life simply on the basis that you're a moron. If you type "homophobe", you may be banned for life or just a for a while.

** You will have to tread lightly, respectfully, and remember that you're among people who are committed conservatives (despite the teaching at schools and from the liberal media which permeates our lives), you're not necessarily among friends, and nobody will reach out to you for a group hug. And if you do remember that, you'll get along just fine and last forever at
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Yessir, that's some serious open-mindedness. One wonders why Joel didn't just save the bandwidth and write, "If you don't already agree with everything I think, fuck off. Really."

I, on the other hand, like to give people their say, even if they disagree with me. But I've made it clear numerous times that I have a limit, and that limit is when commenters just won't shut the fuck up from saying the same stupidity over and over and over and over. At that point, I point out that, if they have that much to say, they're welcome to get their own blog to say it.

So, to recap, I generally don't toss peoples' asses out of here until they've made total dickheads of themselves, while Joel, right from the registration procedure, makes it clear that he will tolerate absolutely no dissension whatsoever, and will ban your sorry ass for the slightest infraction, real or imaginary.

And with all that in mind, guess which one of us is constantly accused of "censorship" by the dumbshit-o-sphere? Go on ... guess. Really. You'll never guess.