Xref: utzoo gnu.misc.discuss:1265 comp.sources.d:5663 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!lanl!nmsu!opus!ted From: ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.sources.d Subject: Re: The Official Word on Citations in FSF Works Message-ID: Date: 19 Jul 90 16:51:11 GMT References: <3014@skye.ed.ac.uk> <1990Jul18.145521.11726@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1990Jul18.211712.27198@ico.isc.com> <1990Jul19.004300.19165@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: news@NMSU.edu Followup-To: gnu.misc.discuss Organization: NMSU Computer Science Lines: 36 In-reply-to: gsh7w@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU's message of 19 Jul 90 00:43:00 GMT demonstrating an ignorance of definitions, In article <1990Jul19.004300.19165@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gsh7w@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg S. Hennessy) writes: # Censorship is a type of editing. Specifically, it is editing to # remove that which is in some way--esp. morally--objectionable (as # contrasted with things removed because they are irrelevant, # incorrect, etc.). ... The editor of a newspaper is not censoring when he edits out cuss words from the baseball player who was tagged out at home. I ain't saying what the FSF did was a good thing, it just ain't censorship. # >...Please learn the difference # > between censorship and editing. # If you would teach, first know. I do. from longman's dictionary of common english: censor 0100 an official who examines printed matter, films, or (sometimes in war) private letters with the power to remove anything offensive or (in war) helpful to the enemy -- Offer void except where prohibited by law.