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- From: davew@willow03.cray.com (Dave Wagner)
- Subject: Re: Censorship == Politically Correct (was Re: Censors--must be the new year)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.145407.6547@hemlock.cray.com>
- Originator: davew@willow03
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- References: <1992Dec29.183523.1820@wam.umd.edu> <C02D68.LF@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec30.094601.26972@hemlock.cray.com> <lk3pq7INN222@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <ARCHER.578.725740806@utkvm1.utk.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 14:54:07 CST
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- >
- > > Anytime you organize a group of people to 'boycott', 'isolate', or
- > >'ostracize' someone, you are practicing 'censorship'. As the group
- > >practicing the censorship becomes larger, the punishments can become
- > >more severe -- until, if the group is large enough, it becomes 'the will
- > >of the people' (law).
- >
- > Um... no. An organized boycott by individuals is a legitimate persuasion
- > technique. "We will not associate with you so long as you "X". For we do
- > not wish to associate with people who "X"." Only the govnernment can censor.
- >
- I agree. Furthermore, I am constantly befuddled by people saying that
- a company is wrong in not carrying certain newsgroups and that this is
- censorship and they shouldn't be allowed to do that. It isn't. It's a
- company making a policy, just like most (computer) companies probably get
- a couple subscriptions to various publications, but not Playboy. I'd also
- stretch this to include universities - they have a limited amount of resources
- and it is up to the people charged with allocating them as to how they are
- used. Students may boycott or picket or whatever (peacefully) to get their
- point across and if there is enough outcry, then the policy will change on
- it's own. It still is not in anyway government-type censorship.
- --
- Dave Wagner "Tongue-tied and twisted,
- davew@cray.com , uunet!cray!davew just an earth-bound misfit, I"
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