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Pat Boone, never one of my favorites by any stretch of the imagination, has achieved the rank of full blown doofus.
I don't think censorship is a bad word, but it has become a bad word because everybody associates it with some kind of restriction on liberty. ...
Censorship is healthy for any society, and that goes for arts, entertainment, anything.
There's not much I can say to this. Actually, there is.
Censorship: The institution, system, or practice of censoring.
Censoring: To examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable. [My italics]
Hey, idiot!? If you suppress or delete something, it is a restriction on the liberty of the person who had said/done the thing in question.
If you think something's bad -- so bad that it shouldn't be allowed to escape into the world -- then do what you can to try and stop it. Protest, write your congressman, hold your breath until you turn blue, boycott the offender; whatever you think appropriate to do so long as it is legal. I'm almost certainly going to both disagree with you and fight against you (because I believe that the answer to "bad" speech is to raise good speech against it). But be honest with yourself (and with everyone else) as to what you are doing.
Thanks to TMFTML for the tip.
Posted by Casper at April 22, 2004 01:16 AM