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skeptic2711 year, 8 months ago

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It's all well and good to say one is opposed to censorship but how much censorship do we accept and even support?
Censorship of photos of soldier's coffins
Self censorship by the networks of the horrors of war.
Censorship of bad words on radio, television and newspapers.
Censorship of nudity by television and newspapers.
Even the movie rating system is form of censorship.
Censorship of pornography.

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  gamahuche1 year, 8 months ago
  
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  "It's all well and good to say one is opposed to censorship but how much censorship do we accept and even support?"
  I don't know we from wee.
  Speaking for one, none.
  [Great piece, RFE! Fantastic research! I missed the first one but am going to have a look in the archives..]
  
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    skeptic2711 year, 8 months ago
    
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    None? Not even child pornography?
    Once we accept that something is too dangerous to be allowed even 'for the children', then we are admitting that there are also ideas too dangerous for governments to allow too.
    
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      Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 8 months ago
      
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      I would say the act of "creating" child porn is quite illegal . But who decides? Is "Lolita" porn? Who decides? Pat Robertson? Decide for yourself I say. Many of the banned books in the article were required reading where I attended school.
      Efforts to control and protect ultimately make someone in charge of what is or is not permissible. As Mark Twain suggested... should steak be outlawed because a baby can't chew it? Certainly I believe some of the censored material is not of value, but should I decide for you? I would rather suffer through 1,000 bad ideas that I found offensive than have a single word from a Vonnegut novel censored. Censorship is not effective anyway. Even the "rating" of content has 2 negative effects- (cont)
      
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        Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 8 months ago
        
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        1. Those being "protected" often seek out the "explicit" material- and 2.Retail chains can ban "explicit" materials... (Like John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High" for instance.) They always seem to get it wrong anyway.
        
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        Endoscopy1 year, 8 months ago
        
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        If creating child porn should be illegal then so should be owning it. Otherwise the creators get to reap the rewards while claiming they are just selling it.
        Restricting things from those who should not come in contact with it seems perfectly acceptable. If adults want anything legal then that is a different story.
        
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        skeptic2711 year, 8 months ago
        
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        This is exactly my point. We generally support censorship of things that are offensive to us and oppose it for that which we don't find offensive. How can you criticize those who would censor one book or another that they find offensive when you yourself would censor that which you find offensive. Whether something is legal or not only depends on whether lawmakers found it sufficiently offensive to go to the trouble to pass a law.
        
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        ForrestPhelps1 year, 8 months ago
        
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        I used to think only someone who has never read it could label "Lolita" pornography.
        Now I say, only those who can't understand it could label it such.
        
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