In reply to Paul Lawley-Jones.

I appreciate the effort KTS915, but maybe I'm just invincibly ignorant and can't see this in the foregoing discussion. Justin didn't bring up government interference and neither did I. I think we were both coming from the typical libertarian-ish American perspective that is focused on any interference with our own domain, whether it's the government or not. We get to be censors in our own domain -- nobody else does, but others have the same authority over their domain too. As Paul said, we can't enter another person's house or a public space and silence people there or make them leave. That is what Paul called his definition of "censorship" -- interfering with others' speech beyond our own domain. I agree with that, but I don't see why also censorship can't also be used to describe banning a commenter and other "technologically assisted ignoring."