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From: hes@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Henry E. Schaffer)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Censorship on the USENET
Keywords: censorship
Message-ID: <1990Nov2.141012.25200@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 2 Nov 90 14:10:12 GMT
References: <1990Nov01.064916.19218@looking.on.ca> <yTqyR1w163w@dogface> <1990Nov02.044428.2834@looking.on.ca>
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In article <1990Nov02.044428.2834@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>Censorship does indeed require violence, in the extended sense, where
>"don't print that or we will put you in jail" is violence (the
>threat thereof) even if no actual violent acts take place because
>the repressed publisher complies.

  In the public sector, plus private universities, censorship can be
done by cutting off funding or threatening to cut off funding.  The
recent flap about the NEA fits under this heading.  I don't see how
this type of censorship fits the "violence" description in any way.

--henry schaffer  n c state univ

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