User blog comment:NeonSpotlight/Where did comments go?/@comment-4019000-20120807213802/@comment-24.145.121.197-20120807232554

That's just annoying. An account makes no difference except to waste my time and sacrifice my personal details putting them at risk. There is no upside.

As for censorship, it needs to be kept to the absolute minimum. Sure, they have every legal right, but it's morally distasteful in the extreme to use it anything more than a very conservative minimum.