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>I've got to ask, What's wrong with censorship? We do it everyday in so many
>ways. And I say "we" because I mean all of us. Yes, even Kent.
>
<To me censorship implies governmental banning or editing of speech, written
or verbal, which I could be in favor of only in cases wherein such speech
causes some threat to the public order or good (incitements to violence or
use of fighting words)--the so called yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater.
. Then it was my turn. I
>brought up snuff movies and images of fellatio practised by mature men on
>small boys (as exhibited in shop windows in Soho in the early Seventies),
>and they agreed that such images should not be exhibited willynilly (no pun
>intended) to the public.
<Not to try to nitpick you, but such movies and images portray breaking of
the law or conduct that society has decided it will not tolerate. And again
you have a group of fellow citizens getting together and saying that they
don't want to see such images.
How about the government on its own deciding that some image is
objectionable and should not be exhibited, ala the recent flap at the
Brooklyn Museum and Giuliani's efforts to step in because he personally
finds the images objectionable (and understanding there are distinctions
because such efforts have been feeble and since taxpayer funds are involved)
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