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[JoeySoCal]

I love you guys at DU. You do an incredible service. But I have a really negative reaction when I see things like, "Only comments portraying support for Governor Richardson’s campaign, or projecting a positive view of his campaign, are welcome." I mean, open dialog is the whole point. Sure trolls suck, but if you carry out the control and censorship to a fuller extent, what do you get? Something quite resembling the cocoon of self-reinforcing idiocy that we witness in the current reigning band of clowns. I reminisce here about the social commentary in the recent film 'Children of Men' on the resistance group ultimately emulating and becoming corrupt like those in power. I may be getting carried away here, but if so, please explain the justification for taking the bastion of open dialog that is blogs, and bringing sorts of distasteful and suspicious forms of censorship to it. Put another way, why the hell would you be against potentially healthy criticism in the blog?