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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> I have always believed that censorship was something which happened (or did
> not happen) before something is published (or not published). Although
> retroactive censorship by a third party (if that is what you consider has
> occurred here) may still be contain the word "censorship," it certainly isn't
> censorship in the usual sense. To the military example, the military censor's
True, that is usually the case. However, according to M-W, to censor is to
"[...] suppress or delete anything considered objectionable". "Suppress"
certainly has connotations of "before publication", but "delete" doesn't.
Anyway. It's not censorship in the normal sense, I agree -- that'd be if you
(or Lego) read the messages before they were posted and removed bits.
However, it is censorship in that "objectionable" (in this case, for legal
or at least legalistic reasons) matterial is being deleted.
Really, at this point I'm just arguing about language, which is beside the
point, so I'll stop.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
Boston University Linux ---> http://linux.bu.edu/
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