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- From: orc@vpnet.chi.il.us (david parsons)
- Subject: Re: To boycott is not to censor
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.054818.29198@vpnet.chi.il.us>
- Followup-To: alt.censorship
- Organization: Department of Atomic Text Units
- References: <lk6up0INN5q5@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1993Jan1.172113.13999@athena.mit.edu> <1993Jan2.224336.24949@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:48:18 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan2.224336.24949@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> dlaro@lonestar.utsa.edu (David O. Laro) writes:
- |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.
-
- There's really never been any precedent for forcing the media to
- print things it doesn't want to. There's a moderately famous quote
- about that; something along the lines of "freedom of the press is
- for those who own one."
-
-
- |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.
-
- The NEA is endowed by the US Government. It becomes a little
- iffy when one section of the population uses government funds to
- subsidise their particular taste in art. Calling this censorship
- is wrong, but it's still a bad thing. (Unlike corporate
- sponsorship, it's a little more difficult to stop providing the
- government with revenues if you disapprove of their taste in art.
- And with buttheads like Jesse Helms in government, you can take as
- a given disapproval of their taste in art.)
- ____
- david parsons \bi/ stealth artiste
- \/
-