Seeing that certain people have become overly sensitive to perceived criticism it is worthy to see what can be found on line in relation to censorship.

Corporate censorship is the process by which editors in corporate media outlets intervene to halt the publishing of information that portrays their business or business partners in a negative light. Privately owned corporations in the business of reporting the news also sometimes refuse to distribute information due to the potential loss of advertiser revenue or shareholder value which adverse publicity may bring.

Commercial censorship
Suppression of access to the means of dissemination of ideas can function as a form of censorship. Such suppression has been alleged to arise from the policies of governmental bodies, such as the FDA and FCC in the United States of America, the CRTC in Canada, newspapers that refuse to run commentary the publisher disagrees with, lecture halls that refuse to rent themselves out to a particular speaker, and individuals who refuse to finance such a lecture. The omission of selected voices in the content of stories also serves to limit the spread of ideas, and is often called censorship. Such omission can result, for example, from persistent failure or refusal by media organisations to contact criminal defendants (relying solely on official sources for explanations of crime). Censorship has been alleged to occur in such media policies as blurring the boundaries between hard news and news commentary, and in the appointment of allegedly biased commentators, such as a former government attorney, to serve as anchors of programs labelled as hard news but comprising primarily commentary.

The focusing of news stories to exclude questions that might be of interest to some audience segments, such as the avoidance of reporting cumulative casualty rates among citizens of a nation that is the target or site of a foreign war, or in the prevention, treatment, and curing of disease, is often described as a form of censorship. Favourable representation in news or information services of preferred products or services, such as reporting on leisure travel and comparative values of various machines instead of on leisure activities such as arts, crafts or gardening has been described by some as a means of censoring ideas about the latter in favour of the former.

Self-censorship: Imposed on the media in a free market by market/cultural forces rather than a censoring authority. This occurs when it is more profitable for the media to give a biased view.

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VERY LIGHT READING at best. Great job of copy and paste!

Its unfortunate that the moderator on the other board locks threads, blocks users, and deletes posts critical of his dear Code 3. He calls people cowards for refusing to disclose their actual names, and yet he (and Code 3) refuse to disclose a personal contact number for someone at code 3, so we can avoid having to resort the the absolutely useless email system code 3 has, where many collectors never even receive a response, and the ones that do are still no better off. So quit playing games. Post a REAL phone number that goes to someone other than a low level customer service person. And John, your columns should be spent more on what you are doing to fix the code 3 problems, not continually talking about your wife, and how the models are "flying out the door". You made what, 1 brief announcement about the squirt debacle and then what? Business as usual? Brush it under the carpet? When will the squirts be fixed? Has the issue been permanently scrapped? Has the product been destroyed? If they are ALL defective, is someone going to fix them by hand, or are you going to offer them to collectors at 50% off bruised and reduced clearance? The thing that ****** collectors off more than anything is not the truth, but the hiding from the truth, the stall tactics, the less than full disclosure, and the refusal to post realistic contact information that goes to someone who can actually fix the problem instead of apologizing saying there is nothing they can do.