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- From: dlaro@lonestar.utsa.edu (David O. Laro)
- Subject: Re: To boycott is not to censor
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:43:36 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan1.172113.13999@athena.mit.edu> wdstarr@athena.mit.edu (William December Starr) writes:
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- <clip, clip, a lot of stuff is gone>
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- >See my statement (1), above... if it's your newspaper or magazine,
- >your editorial decisions as to what goes into or stays out of it are
- >not censorship because all you're doing is refraining from providing
- >someone else with a soapbox. You _aren't_ preventing someone else
- >from printing whatever he wants in _his_ newspaper or magazine.
-
- What? Let him print what ever he wants in *his* newspaper or magazine?
- Hey, if only _you_ have a newspaper or magazine, you have denied access.
- Sounds a lot like "let them eat cake!" to me. Indeed, I guess everybody
- has a magazine or newspaper at his disposal.
-
- And how do you see it when the National Endowment for the Arts (or the NEH)
- refuses to fund those arts which appear pornographic and objectionable to
- most of us taxpayers? There were so many people who called it censorship!
-
- But you didn't, I suppose? You just said, let them publish their "art" in
- their own magazines/display it in their own galleries/support themselves
- with their own fortunes. That would be consistent with your statement above.
-
- Mr Starr, I begin to believe that you have been jaded or spoiled by all the
- freedoms you enjoy in this arena, don't realize what goes on elsewhere. Have
- you ever been a subscriber to Prodigy? Now *there's* some censorship. I
- say that because every opinion is screened before making the public board.
- Many are denied access..I call that censorship. Libraries, public or private,
- schools, colleges, whatever, often keep certain books off their shelves.
- When it is done because they don't want that book available (not $$shortage)
- I call that censorship, too.
-
- Seems there is more than one definition, huh?
-
- >-- William December Starr <wdstarr@athena.mit.edu>
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- ==David
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