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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: moderated sci.physics
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 20:26:21 GMT
- Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
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- In article <1e9gk7INNdos@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> fxt@helios.ucsc.edu (oxide owner) writes:
- >>sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti) :
- >>What does moderated actually mean? Is it not a euphemism for censorship?
- >>bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- >>Si, senhor.
- >
- >the physical review, the astrophysical journal, or for that matter,
- >all peer-reviewed professional journals are moderated. is this a beneficial
- >form of censorship?
-
- They are also highly delicate scientific organs, both
- in terms of their suasion and their internal economics.
-
- They can't afford to futz around with shoddy science.
-
- Nobody on the net, and certainly not its infrastructure,
- is so restricted.
-
- >does one moderate what television and movies one's children may ingest?
-
- That's up to you. I, personally, would not let my kids
- watch The Love Boat or Gilligan's Island, to the point of
- preferring reruns of the various Emanuelle and Dirty Harry
- flicks, if necessary.
-
- >is this a beneficial form of censorship?
-
- If they had excess resources, perhaps it would not be
- necessary, but they will be young for fewer years than they
- will be old, and like the peer-reviewed journals, their
- pages are precious few.
-
- >who/what is in one's kill files? is this a beneficial form of censorship?
-
- I have no kill file. They waste time searching for dead
- issues, and thus keep them undead.
-
- >censorship need not be a dirty word.
-
- Nor need "fuck," but I've known that since I was 5 and got
- my mouth washed out with soap for saying "square words."
-
- >so blair, which form(s) of moderated information input do you suscribe to?
-
- I tie people like you into chairs and show them films of
- war while playing Beethoven and injecting them with
- neuroreconfiguring drugs. Makes them into good citizens.
-
- --Blair
- "It was real horrorshow."
-