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Censorship

From: hen@bu-cs.bu.edu (Wm. H. Henneman)
Date: Tue, 26 May 87 10:07:12 EDT
Subject: Censorship
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Organization: Boston Univ. CS Dept.

No, it doesn't mean we give any group free reign.  But yes, it does
mean we let them write anything they want.  I can find no example in
history where cencorship accomplished any of the stated goals of the
censors, but I can find plenty of examples where the cencorship got
moving in its own direction, and came back to bite the original
proponents.  I think the first thing to vanish under cenorship is
rationality.

I am offended by much of my environment, but I am not rich enough to
take the job of Fool Killer (which doesn't pay anything, and you even
have to provide your own tools), and am not trusting enough to delegate
the job to anyone else (not even my brother).

   -- hen --