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    Re: What Censorship Isn't —Timothy P. Smith
   (...) Every news show leaves out bits of news. Is all news censored? Every library excludes some books. Is that censorship? Tim (17 years ago, 13-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
   
        Re: What Censorship Isn't —Timothy Gould
     (...) It depends largely on their reasons for doing it. If it is to purposefully bias the news (eg. render something not-true through omission) then it is censorship. But as I said it's not the best analogy. Tim (17 years ago, 13-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
   
        Re: What Censorship Isn't —David Eaton
   (...) Censorship implies a bit more active restriction, I think. Censorship of the news would be when a party involved in delivering the news attempts to delivery a particular piece of news but is denied by their editor, manager, network, the FCC, (...) (17 years ago, 13-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
   
        Re: What Censorship Isn't —Dave Schuler
   (...) Hey, that's pretty good. In essence, omission is not censorship; restriction is. That works at least in the public arena, but it still doesn't apply IMO to a private forum. Still, it's a good rule of thumb. Dave! (17 years ago, 13-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 

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