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From: erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend)
Newsgroups: news.misc,rec.mag
Subject: Re: Playboy Censored in England (was: News slanted by censorship?)
Message-ID: <1011@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jul 88 05:22:28 GMT
References: <386@blic.BLI.COM> <113@dcs.UUCP> <3939@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <519@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>
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In article <519@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>, flash@qmc-cs.UUCP writes:
> I write:
> >Freedom of the press *started* in Britain.  I think that their
> >(British and west european) libel and invasion of privacy laws are
> >much stricter, creating an illusion of censorship.
> You obviously haven't followed the Spycatcher affair.

I was excepting that, actually.  There are a few things in America that
are censored more by business than the government.  We have tons
of prior censorship over here.  Work for the gov't in a security related
position?  You probably get to sign a little agreement (as part of
your contract) that says you'll never publish anything, ever, related
to your job.  Blech.  Just prior-censorship instead of post.  At least
the Spycatcher stuff got to America.  If it was the other way around,
the U.S. would be suing to have copies in *all* countries returned and
destroyed.

> What's after the centerfold in the July issue of Playboy?  All the copies in
> England have been censored.  _Please_ be cryptic in your response, if you
> post, otherwise sysops could go to jail.

I dunno.  I guess I'll go buy it and find out.

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