<p>My school has a website for the daily newspaper. For each article they have a comments section.</p>
<p>One of the articles was about the athletic director urging fans to show up to games. I responded yesterday with criticism that the AD should have never been hired because of his extremely poor ethical conduct at his previous position. I did not use profanity.</p>
<p>When I went back to the same article today, my comment was deleted. </p>
<p>Is this legal? I assume it is, but I feel my right to freedom of speech as a student is being violated. I was planning on joining the paper someday, but I don't want to write for a paper that will pull such a stunt.</p>
<p>my understanding is that legally, if they censor or edit <em>any</em> comments, they can be held responsible for slander/defamation posted on their site; therefore, if it was felt that (there was any chance that) your comment might be seen as slanderous by <em>anyone</em>, they would be justified in removing your comment in order to protect themselves from litigation</p>