@Owen – thanks for commenting, and a great – and really important point. You’re absolutely right: technology censorship is one thing, content censorship is another thing entirely, and indeed something which would make me (and probably others) start to take different decisions – albeit ones that might compromise on usability.

One of the things that I think these issues start to raise are about the point in time when beliefs and ideals start to cross over into actual responses. For me personally: I will compromise on notions of “openness” as far as technology is concerned in order to get a better user experience; but like you, would very much start to twitch if censorship became more of an issue. How *much* more I guess remains to be seen. The reflection of this onto the general populous (how much of a crap people give about the Facebook TOS for example..) is where stuff gets really interesting…