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From: scott@blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu (scott)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Prodigy Special Offer hits my mailbox...
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.174351.650@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 14 Feb 91 17:43:51 GMT
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In article <1991Feb13.204146.20712@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
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>In article <7909@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> randolph@cognito.Eng.Sun.COM (Randolph Fritz) writes:
>>Part of what we're working out here is exactly what censorship means
>>in the context of cyberspace.  And we still don't know.  
>
>Nor will we ever, since it's not really an issue here.  It depends on
>your definition of censorship.  By mine, it is impossible for Prodigy
>practice censorship, since that is the province of the government or
>organized crime.   By your definition, it is censorship if somebody refuses
>to let you use their property to express your opinions.  The two definitions
>will have trouble meeting.

That's an interesting definition you have there. Tell me, what do you call
the team of people whose job it is to bleep out the dirty words on Johnny 
Carson? NBC refers to them as "censors" - what do you call them? Or are you
saying that NBC is organized crime? ;-)


-- 
Scott Coleman                                                      tmkk@uiuc.edu

"Unisys has demonstrated the power of two. That's their stock price today."
       - Scott McNealy on the history of mergers in the computer industry.