Whoa! Censorship on an eGroup…tsk tsk..

Its surreal. When you've been on the net as long as one has. Moderating several eGroups and being a member to countless others.  Ive been on forums that began with just a few members and have seen them balloon to almost un-manageable proportions - but never have I seen a mod actually REMOVE or delete another member's post. No matter what the offending party had said. 

I can understand and in most cases, agree to certain rules and policies on a forum. Use of profanity, displaying obscene or graphic (inappropriate) images or just plain flaming another member , would be the common indiscretions that "could" have one's message censored. But to have a post completely removed for being "out of topic"  - sounds like pure CENSORSHIP to me.  Or the mod just went on a power trip. Removing it - just because he could.

Boy, talk about our FREEDOM of speech. In a world of unlimited proliferation of tabloids, newspapers, blogs and the internet - a mod simply removes another's message. Whew…. like they say, "only in the Pili-pines."  Wonder what you folks think about this? Are we in Singapore or Russia?