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Re: IWF reports - some data

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From: Malcolm McMahon
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 00:00
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On Mon, 23 Feb 1998 21:05:27 +0000, peter@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter
Ceresole) wrote:

>In article <34f22ed0.1063991@news.demon.co.uk>,
>malcolm@pigsty.demon.co.uk (Malcolm McMahon) wrote:
>
>>Censorship of what you're children view, whether you consider it right
>>or wrong, is still censorship.
>
>No in the terms that we're talking about, it's not. In our society parents
>are legally and morally responsible for their children's upbringing and
>their protection. By any standards that includes taking some responsibility
>for what they see and experience. It's not externally applied censorship in
>any of the ways we've been discussing it; it's self-censorship. To deny
>parents the ability to do this if it's technically possible and has no
>effect on others is oppressive and denies then their rights just as much as
>externally applied censorship does.

Self-censorship is censoring your _output_. Controlling what children
sees is censorship, plain and simple.
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From: malcolm@pigsty.demon.co.uk (Malcolm McMahon)
Subject: Re: IWF reports - some data
Date: 1998/02/24
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