Article View: man.general
Article #248Re: Censorship from the University of Manitoba
From: Danny Aldham
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 00:00
14 lines
2201 bytes
2201 bytes
Bruce Allen (osiris@!sympatico.ca) wrote: : If an intelligent, well-reasoned, statement providing the case against : royalty, posted in a reasonable number of groups simultaneously, were to be : removed soley for its content, then that would be censorship. : When "FUCK THE QUEEN" gets dropped, it is indeed a cleanup. : Nothing more. So when a message is cancelled because you don't like the title, that is OK? You seem to have no grasp of the entire concept of free speach. It is precisely the distasteful & obnoxious that must be allowed. Is it OK for the Communist Chinese to censore Democracy posts since they find them too in bad taste? And who decides? You? I think Gary Mills is censoring posts that he has no right censoring.
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<5pbrqb$6qd@wolfe.wimsey.com>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mailReferences:
<5p9uvn$8m0$1@hendrix.postino.com> <01bc865a$ed59df80$78e4acce@culeist>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f67a2,76e88c6557ffbaf X-Google-Attributes: gidf67a2,public X-Google-Thread: 113d91,76e88c6557ffbaf X-Google-Attributes: gid113d91,public X-Google-Thread: 1083bf,76e88c6557ffbaf X-Google-Attributes: gid1083bf,public X-Google-Thread: fb708,76e88c6557ffbaf X-Google-Attributes: gidfb708,public X-Google-Thread: f7b9c,76e88c6557ffbaf X-Google-Attributes: gidf7b9c,public X-Google-Thread: 10ea42,76e88c6557ffbaf X-Google-Attributes: gid10ea42,public X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,76e88c6557ffbaf X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public X-Google-Thread: 11405e,76e88c6557ffbaf X-Google-Attributes: gid11405e,public From: aldham@wimsey.com (Danny Aldham) Subject: Re: Censorship from the University of Manitoba Date: 1997/07/01 Message-ID: <5pbrqb$6qd@wolfe.wimsey.com> X-Deja-AN: 253934825 References: <5p9uvn$8m0$1@hendrix.postino.com> <01bc865a$ed59df80$78e4acce@culeist> Followup-To: man.general,nf.general,nf.nlnet.general,ns.general,pei.general,bc.general,bc.politics,van.general,ott.general,yk.general,nwt.test,uk.politics,uk.politics.constitution,uk.politics.electoral,news.admin.net-abuse.usenet Organization: Wimsey Information Services Newsgroups: man.general,nf.general,nf.nlnet.general,ns.general,pei.general,bc.general,bc.politics,van.general,ott.general,yk.general,nwt.test,uk.politics,uk.politics.constitution,uk.politics.electoral,news.admin.net-abuse.usenet