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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 18:19:46 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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Where did the word “murfling” come from, anyway?
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Todd coined it. Altho it has since become a “bad” word, he intended it to sound
a little silly. The rest of the admins loved it, expecting that the community
would accept it as a compromise between no cursing and free speech. It still
amazes me that so many people seem to be upset about murfling and use it as
reference to an ‘Orwellian’ world where civil rights are slowly eroded away by a
malevolent government. The original intention was to reinforce those rights,
never to take them away.
Whether the intention is what happened or not is a matter of debate, but I can
assure you that it was with the best of intentions.
-Lenny
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| (...) From what (and how) I've read no-one has claimed that murfling is eroding anyone's rights. They have claimed that the term is a euphemistic way of saying censored and that the use of euphemism is bad (at least from my reading). From your (...) (18 years ago, 13-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Nope. It comes back to the TOS. I can dig up the link if you'd like, but a year or so ago there was a big discussion regarding someone's ouster from Bricklink for violating the TOS of that site. Great was the outcry on his behalf, though I (...) (18 years ago, 13-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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