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Re: Censoring Unpopular Speech? (Re: Good news for collectors (was Re: 1593 box photos!))
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Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:34:57 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, James Simpson writes:
Forgive my bad etiquette in replying to my own post, but I neglected to set FUT
to debate.
james
> This censorship topic reminds me of something that my mom told me about a couple
> of weeks ago; it seems that she was listening to AM talk radio at some unusual
> hour, and found a program devoted to cigar enthusiasts - as its often fun to
> listen to radio programs that are devoted to things that one doesn't know much
> about - she listed this program and found it very interesting, except for the
> fact that every 3rd or 4th sentence a voice would break in announcing that
> cigars are harmful to one's health and smoking them often leads to cancer,
> yadda, yadda, yadda. Now, I agree that smoking cigars is bad for one's health
> (I only enjoy one extremely occasionally while discussing philosophy or Tolkien
> [same thing] with a friend, or when I can get away with it without my wife
> finding out), but...that intrusion on free speech that was forced upon these
> radio enthusiasts went, IMO, too far. Besides the fact that I doubt many young
> impressionable minds were tuned into AM 1570 or whatever...smoking, despite most
> politically correct efforts to the contrary...is still legal in the USA, and I
> resent my government intruding on free speech regarding a legal activity. Now,
> I'm no friend of tobacco...as I said, I light up a stogee very, very
> infrequently, and always just as a lark. What do you all think? Is the
> government within reasonable limits (yes, it may have been legal, but is it *
> reasonable*) to impose such a restriction? Wouldn't a notice perhaps at the
> beginning and at the end have been sufficient?
>
> james
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