Scoble points to a hate speech issue and says this:

Richard Silverstein had a commenter leave some hate speech on his blog and he's writing about what happened when he tried to get his blog provider to remove it. Don't visit these links if you aren't ready to see some profanity and/or hate speech cause he reprints the actual post that was left in his comments. Today he asks Hate Speech: Is there ever a limit for blog services?

That's a really tough one for me. Here on my personal blog I don't mind leaving up such speech but I will make sure any such speech is replied to with a personal reply from me. I'm a believer in not hiding that kind of stuff.

I'm not even sure why Scoble thinks this is a tough call. Free speech means that the government won't censor you - it doesn't mean that anyone has free access to a soapbox you provide. A blog is nothing if not a personal soapbox - and I don't think that there's anything remotely like a free speech issue involved in censoring nasty comments out. In fact, by doing so we collectively provide a level of social disapproval for such commentary. That social disapproval is critical in protecting the commons.

To my mind, you do a postive disservice to the community by leaving hate speech up on your site. IMHO, if someone wants to vent that way, they can get their own blog, and do it in their own space.