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Re: What Censorship Isn't
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:02:01 GMT
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Maybe the hangup is that even though censorship isn’t necessarily a bad
thing, but people seem think it is. In the present discussion context, it
seems people explicitly want to avoid saying “Lugnet censors content”. And
that’s just not true. It does. Not very *OFTEN*, mind you, and not without
*good reason* (or so I’d like to think), but just because the word
“censorship” has a negative connotation doesn’t mean that it doesn’t apply.
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I think this hits the nail firmly on the head. Censorship is most definitely not
always a bad thing. Child pornography is, and should be, censored in almost
every country in the world. Ones anti-virus email filter censors ones email
whenever it needs to. None of these things are called censorship but they most
certainly are censorship.
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But whether or not murfling represents censorship is another issue entirely.
I personally don’t think it does, although I could see the the argument for
the “gray area” starting to begin at murfling.
DaveE
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At the end of the day my argument that murfling is a form of censorship is
mostly a gut instinct. Dave K’s argument
here almost convinces me that
it is not but doesn’t quite sit right. One difficulty is that online information
retrieval does not always have offline equivalents. For me the basic arguments
boils down to “could the word ‘murfl’ be replaced validly by the word ‘censor’?”
and the answer to my mind is: yes.
Tim
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Message is in Reply To:
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| (...) Disagree, especially in the event that the enforcement is on subjective issues. For example, Lugnet's TOS specifies that you shouldn't post that which is "profane" or "vulgar". Let's say the administration deems the word "evolution" as (...) (17 years ago, 13-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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