Finally, I would put forth that by choosing what information we will and won't share on a community level is to perform the same kind of censorship that we, as Westerners, decry as "totalitarian" and "fascist".

"We" the Perl Monks community are all individuals who decide as individuals what to write and what not to write. "We" are not a government. "We" do not have the power to detain, imprison, or torture dissidents.

If some jerk with too much time on his hands and no sense of personal responsibility wants to cause mayhem and havoc for other people, he can do it without my assistance. There's a big difference between my saying "I don't care to contribute to things I find ethically and morally distasteful" and driving tanks over people who criticize me!

I think you may have a valid point, but it's lost in a forest of disproportional histrionics.

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