>I think this effect is just as relevant and predictable with online communities as it is with college campuses. Nope. Totally different. In your example, th

>I think this effect is just as relevant and predictable with online communities as it is with college campuses. Nope. Totally different. In your example, the poster on HackerNews would only get down-voted and thus, censored. Okay. No big deal. What's happening at the universities right now is different. It is not censership. At these, universities, a person who says, "Edward Snowden is a traitor" would get fired, because students would force the administrators to fired the person they disagree with, because it's "offensive" to call Edward Snowden a traitor. So totally different. On HackerNews, it's just a down-vote, a simple censorship. At the universities, the person loses his job/education/livelihood, all because he has a different opinion about Edward Snowden. That's not censorship. That's "ruinning-people's-lives-for-having-a-different-opinion" but trying to pass it off as just a simple censorship.