Heh, I actually agree with your basic premise that it is better to make detailed and incremental tweaks than use the blunt instrument of wholesale censorship.

Heh, I actually agree with your basic premise that it is better to make detailed and incremental tweaks than use the blunt instrument of wholesale censorship. This whole argument is somewhat ironic too because I like policy discussions and at least once enjoyed religious ones. (After all, I went out and earned a masters degree in Technology & Policy on my own volition and have written religious articles.) What it comes down to for me, is that I am just heavily skeptical that raising the quality of these discussions to an acceptably interesting level in a relatively open online forum can be done, and so I have been advocating censorship instead. I hope I am wrong.