GP-ji, The idea of "property" is a very powerful one. It need NOT be a negative one, in ways you seem to be assuming. The country where you presently reside pioneered some pretty powerful property-rights related concepts (now extended even to cyberspace). Indeed, the graves and monuments of some of those early property-rights pioneers are not very far from where you currently live. These concepts quietly and effectively govern your right to live in an apartment or a house of your choosing. They also tell you how and when you should pay your rent or your mortgage. They tell you what happens if the landlord or other parties do something illegal to you and so on and on. You take these rights for granted, and you enjoy them without even thinking much about them. But on Sajha, the mere phrase gives you hiccups. Yes, Sajha -- one one level -- belongs to all of us. That's the SPIRIT. And I am all for it, and I , like you, have done some bits to promote that spirit. But, Sajha -- on another level -- legally belongs to one individual, San. That's the REALITY. And the probability remains that that individual may, in these uncertain times in Nepal, get into into trouble if powers-that-be are dissatisfied with any or some of the things on Sajha. After all, most posters need NOT own up to anything they post here. Relatve anonymity protects them. But who protects San? No one. He's the one with whom the buck stops here. That is why, he is justfied in looking out for his own and Sajha's greater long-term interests, EVEN if that means he has to -- using his own judgment -- delete some threads from tiem to time. Sure, one can contest his decisions (he is, after all, a human too), but to expect him to allow a political democracy to flourish on Sajha would be taking Sajha too seriously to the point of sheer absurdity. And San derives his authority NOT from some dictatorial lordiness, but from the simple fact that he actually owns this site, pays its bills and so on. Let us not forget that, at the end of the day, Sajha is NOT run by a committee or even by some community, but by an individual who owns it but has continued to show good sense to invite others to come have fun here too. Tetti ho kura. Bhok Lagyo; pyas lagyo. oohi ashu