The battle of the comment pages-Which is the most free

There has been a fair amount of criticism over the Telegraph's attempts at creating its own version of citizen journalism.

My Telegraph is essentially an area where Telegraph readers can post their own articles.

The Guardian has been particularly critical concerning the comments written by those espousing the views of the extreme right.

Shane Richmond responds to the criticism by pointing out that the Comment is free site on the Guardian is not a lot better

Jews who support Israel are "false Jews", Condoleezza Rice is an "Aunt Jemima on the Bush plantation" and Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe is no worse than that of Ian Smith. These are just some of the views that can be found on the Guardian's Comment Is Free website.

He points out that while

the Telegraph's position is that readers should be free, within the law, to express their views, the Guardian's censors meanwhile eliminate as many as one in ten posts, which they consider to be unsavoury.

My view for what it is worth.If you are advertising a comment is free section then if articles break the rules they should be deleted,if they simply break your opinion then let them survive.