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["homo obsolescensis" <XB.K98@STANFORD.BITNET>]

Subject: more fucking censorship
Censorship Rating: o sure.

     >that each person who posts to the group should censor their own
     >articles, and that the censorship rating is made part of the subject
     >header.
     >Here, in Oz, the TV and Cinemas use the same censorship ratings:
     >G = General admission
     >PG = Parental Guidance
     >M = Mature Audiences ( eg. Platoon )
     >R = Restricted Audiences (eg. 9.5 Weeks, Angel Heart, Blue Velvet)

flame := all
this is the most repugnant suggestion Ive ever seen on the net. self
rating is nothing more than an internalization of repression, the
colonized taking upon itself the values of the colonizer, a
mystification of the structures of power, that reifies, and
ultimately validates that repression.  moreover the feminist
critique is in no way served by such censorship, since that
censorship silences (ie neutralizes) the discourse as a whole,
subsuming a critical discourse into a larger, mystified (and to some
extent fetishized) discourse, that of the net-as-panopticon.
flame := nothing
Walter Henry
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