Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!timbuk!cs.umn.edu!msi.umn.edu!src.honeywell.com!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!vsi1!hsv3!mvp From: mvp@hsv3.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Censorship on the USENET Message-ID: <5628@hsv3.UUCP> Date: 6 Nov 90 03:21:47 GMT References: <1990Nov05.033218.21980@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1990Nov5.194650.197@eff.org> Reply-To: mvp@hsv3.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) Distribution: na Organization: Video 7 + G2 = Headland Technology Lines: 14 In article <1990Nov5.194650.197@eff.org> mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) writes: >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? No. It's stupid, pinheaded idiocy, and quite a few other epithets to boot, but it isn't censorship. When the Thought Police put Huckleberry Finn on a list of banned books and make printing, sale, or posession of them illegal, then that's censorship. -- Mike Van Pelt | What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Headland Technology | Judging from realistic simulations involving a (was: Video Seven) | sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we ...ames!vsi1!v7fs1!mvp | can assume it will be pretty bad. -- Dave Barry