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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Expansion of rec.humor.funny to other networks
Message-ID: <1989Mar16.165623.20831@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 89 16:56:23 GMT

>>... while freedom of speech is an important right, freedom
>>from fear and discrimination is also a basic right...

Freedom of speech means nothing if it's only the freedom to speak "clean",
"pure" words, where somebody else defines what is clean and pure.  It has
to include the right to be obnoxious and offensive.
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