I’m all about freedom of speech and I have never censored someone on any of my blog properties. I have, once, closed comments for a blog post but that was for a very particular purpose.
Some of the comments on our properties have been some of the most hurtful things I’ve ever heard of a person’s “digital” mouth and have hurt pretty badly. I honestly can’t even imagine what it would feel like to hear the exact same words spoken to my face.
And yet there have been some amazingly-encouraging words that have boosted our spirits and have reminded us humbly why we do what we do.
But on either case I have never censored and I have never deleted a blog comment. A week or so ago I was asked to delete one by the original commenter…
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