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While I don't think the government has done anything to censor it, as the site becomes more political, it will be subject to regulation by the federal election commission. You can't just put up web sites and state your political view in the US, unless it costs you under a couple hundred bucks or something. You need to file paperwork with the federal election commission. It's the same reason you can't take out an ad in the paper or run a TV commercial espousing your political viewpoint.
We have freedom of speech, as in we can walk down the street and say "hey, I don't like Bush," or write non-obscene political statements on a piece of sign and carry it in certain government-approved areas, but when it costs money to broadcast our opinions to several people at once, that freedom has been elminated through "campaign finance reform." As a webmaster, be advised that you can get in deep shit if you promote any political causes on your sites and fail to file the proper paperwork. Ironically, last election Bush was railing against an anti-Bush web site, which until then had been within the allowable spending limits, but once he talked about it in the media, it got bombarded with traffic, and drove up the bandwidth costs, which caused it to be in violation of FEC spending limits. I think they initiated an investigation, but the PR backlash caused the complaint to be withdrawn.
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