layla,

  Censorship isn't a good thing. Incivility isn't the worst thing in the world. Constant erosion of free speech is worse. The only thing that should be moderated is blatant hate speech. I rarely ever moderate any comment. Incivility doesn't bother me. Calling me or someone an "idiot" doesn't bother me. I think we learn more from the angry comments. Truth comes out in anger.
  The G & M has little respect for commenters. They keep threatening to cancel our Comments page because we are mostly critical of the G & M and the Establishment. Now they have got us more divided by "moderating" every comment. I believe we should just let every comment be published except blatant racism and hate speech.
  And in my opinion, nobody is going to change anybody's core beliefs so we need to lighten up, have some fun, and be more friendly.