Hi Kenneth
I can certainly sympathise with your sentiment and initially I was going to post a comment here in support of an open forum where bare-knuckled dharma debates can take place in their grim and grisly glory. If you want to write it, I will happily read it. As a free thinking adult the hint of censorship gets my goat up too. But then I re-read Daniel's post in its entirety and recognised the wisdom and compassion expressed. That gave me a new perspective on the topic.
Having spent too many years reading the actual freedom mailing list with its abysmal signal to noise ratio, it is my opinion that there is something to be said for a firm editorial hand, to make DhO a place good god-fearing folk will want to visit.
Jokes about good god-fearing folk aside actually I'd prefer to keep that sort out - god-fearing folk. For example the Westboro Baptists - and let me just say, if there's a hell let them burn there! Calm. Breathe.

But imagine having to put up with that sort on here calling us sinners, or for that matter any other trolls antithetical to the DhO because we agreed it'd be an open forum?
Then imagine that going on for 6 years, the enlightened folk ignoring the place as a result so no one got anywhere by participating because it was the blind leading the blind, and eventually Daniel shutting down the DhO discussion board... and thats what happened to the actual freedom mailing list (substituting AF for DhO and "The Directors of the Actual Freedom Trust" for Daniel).