Having watched a few masters in practice I’ve come to accept that it is powerful. At the core of it is old fashioned metta and mindfulness. With lots of interesting toppings to make it contemporary. A decadent desert that’s highly nutritious and actually helps you lose weight.

as for the word censorship , it is used in all sorts of contexts not just with governments and corporations (? corporations are not private spaces?). when daily news doesn’t publish something for political reasons and daily mirror publish that, or the vice versa, that is not official ‘government censorship’ but it is a sort of censorship. then there is general media self censorship. religious groups or even a families may censor (or attempt to) material (on or offline) that its members and children have access to. some political parities and groups enforce a sort of a censorship in spaces they control

(btw i accept that most of these ppl do have a right to censor their private spaces and papers, as well as blog owners). so the i don’t think my use of the word in the context of deletion or non publication of comments by blog owners bc they do not want blog’s visitors to see it was inappropriate.

in the same way, availability and ability to publish the material elsewhere even when it is of equal footing ( when a thing is transplanted from one place to another its is not quite equal btw) doesn’t mean censorship doesn’t exist or wasn’t attempted. that is a completely wrong idea.

Censorship as a word usually applies to governments or corporations, it doesn’t apply to private spaces, especially when you have your own private space on equal footing. It’s like the Daily Mirror complaining about the Daily News not running its letters. You’re using the word censorship for rhetorical effect.

anyway they are also free to make claims in public media ( on and offline) that they are a place for ‘citizen journalism’ giving ppl an opportunity for expressing divergent views, and then censor comments with a different view point, different interpretations, and with questions about veracity of the posts posted there. they may even try to ‘cover up naked censorship with fig leaf of expletives’ (as commenter sri lankan in my blog expresed it) of a troll or two.

but then others are also free to point out the difference between the public claims and the reality, and even publish the comments they censor, for anybody who want to read them (and are not bored to death in the process) judge for themselves why the comments were censored.