GUEST,THG, here's a little civics lesson that you apparently missed in high school:

A law applies to all citizens, favoring no one person over another, and permits a citizen to do whatever he or she wishes, provided it is not specifically forbidden by that law. The Constitution applies only to the government and government-supported institutions, and forbids the government and said government-supported institutions to do anything except that which is specifically permitted by the Constitution.

Private citizens (and Max and Joe and Jeff are private citizens) are not bound by the Constitution. Max and Joe and Jeff are neither obliged nor obligated to provide a platform for anyone and everyone who comes along to say anything and everything he or she wishes. If they want to censor every third word in a posting, or an entire posting, or an entire thread, it is their legal and Constitutional right to do so. If they received government funding to support Mudcat, then this would not be true. But since they don't, it is.

This is something that a lot of folks obviously slept through in class.

Don Firth