PACS Vendor versus Blogger's freedom

Whatever anybody might think of Dalai's PACS blog and his somewhat forthright criticism of various products and vendors everybody is dismayed to hear about the process by which one big PACS company allegedly went about forcing him to withdraw his comments.Surely there would have been a more appropriate way to handle this and we all sure have right to criticism.

Check out this Aunt Minnie discussion forum.

And as one of the contributors on this forum says-

"I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death, your right to say it"