Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!world!eff!mnemonic From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Censorship on the USENET Message-ID: <1990Nov5.194650.197@eff.org> Date: 5 Nov 90 19:46:50 GMT References: <1990Nov05.033218.21980@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Distribution: na Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation Lines: 20 In article fwp1@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) writes: > >Once again, when the government refuses to give me money it is not >censorship. So, when a public school refuses to buy a copy of HUCKLEBERRY FINN for the school library because some parents have complained that Twain's portrayal of Jim is racist, that isn't censorship? --Mike -- Mike Godwin, (617) 864-0665 |"If the doors of perception were cleansed mnemonic@well.sf.ca.us | every thing would appear to man as it is, Electronic Frontier | infinite." Foundation | --Blake