Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!rutgers!mcdchg!ddsw1!zane From: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Re: Censorship on the USENET Message-ID: <1990Nov08.015630.24796@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Date: 8 Nov 90 01:56:30 GMT References: <1990Nov05.033218.21980@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1990Nov5. <5628@hsv3.UUCP> Reply-To: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) Distribution: na Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Wheeling, IL Lines: 18 > 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. No, when it is a public school and is being funded by the people it is censorship. It is Mr. Templeton's (If someone else posted this, sorry) golden rule: He who has the gold makes the rules. The people are those who pay the money, therefore, the school can not ban the book in the library. If those who pay the money want it. (ANYONE who pays the money, not just the majority, if it IS the majority, people should have the right not to pay taxes) -- zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM