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From: mbrown@tonic.osf.org (Mark Brown)
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Subject: Re: Censorship on the USENET
Keywords: censorship
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Date: 1 Nov 90 19:18:59 GMT
References: <1990Nov01.064916.19218@looking.on.ca> <yTqyR1w163w@dogface>
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In article <yTqyR1w163w@dogface>,  writes:
|> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
|> > In general, censorship is the use of violence to suppress information.
|> Does censorship require violence?  In the sense of doing violence to an
|> idea, perhaps.  Anything else is personal preference on the censor's part.

Here's a good definition for you...
It's judgement when an editor/publisher (of any medium) supresses something 
	she doesn't want to display/print.

It's censorship when done by an authority.

No violence is needed. (It helps to use the dictionary, sometimes.)

Mark Brown   IBM AWD / OSF  | I feel a hot wind, on my shoulder,
The Good     mbrown@osf.org |   I dial it in from south-of-the-border
The Bad     uunet!osf!mbrown| I hear the talking, of the dj,
The Ugly     (617) 621-8981 |   can't understand *just what does he say?*