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WSOB 2009 - GENEROSITY POSTPONED

Posted By: Daniel Murphy
Date: Saturday, 10 October 2009, at 4:06 p.m.

In Response To: WSOB 2009 - GENEROSITY POSTPONED (Christian Munk-Christensen)

I'm sorry, we don't agree. "Censorship" is something governments do, and have been doing for millennia before the Internet was invented. The word actually comes from Latin, from the Roman position of Censor, who in addition to being responsible for the census, was also vested with the coercive power of the the state to enforce public morality.

If refusal by anyone anywhere to publish words "considered inappropriate for whatever reason" is "censorship," then every newspaper, every magazine and journal, every book publisher, and every website, blogsite and and newsgroup moderator everywhere practices "censorship" daily. Now some may insist on calling all that "censorship," but to my mind that is a bizarre and diminishing use of a perfectly good word.

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