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From: clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
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Subject: Re: Genus II Edition banned in U.S.?
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Date: Thu, 9-May-85 10:12:16 EDT
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Summary: 

In article <165@ucdavis.UUCP> ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (Kevin Chu) writes:
>I don't beleive the game was 'banned' by any government agency.  Selchow,
>the distributer, took the question out of the US version of the game on
>their own.  ...
>/ex

You're probably right - sorry for the (probably gross)
oversimplification.  Though a point can be made that commercially-
imposed censorship is not necessarily any better than state-imposed, 
this was a very poor example.

A better example is: the movie "If You Love This Planet" was banned (in
spite of the fact that it got an Academy Award for "Best Foreign
Documentary" (or some such)) and that Farley Mowat was denied entry
into the States to promote one of his books.  He is (last I heard on
the news) considered to "consort with known Communists" because he
refused to be "debriefed" by the RCMP and U.S. agencies after his six
month visit to the USSR to get material for his book "Sibir" (sp?)
which was written over 15 years ago.  I hardly think that you can
consider Farley Mowat a communist!

Have you noticed that these examples are all "originated in Canada,
banned in the States"?  Interesting, but probably simply a matter
of our own news media's biases and my own interests.

Anyways, since I didn't get torched like I thought I might be,
it seems fairly clear that the U.S. has not got "totally free
speech" as the original poster (re: Europe dropping net.politics)
claimed (oh so much holier-than-thou) once he saw that Canada and Europe
has some restrictions.
-- 
Chris Lewis,
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