[WikiEN-l] Re: The Censorship Lie

Fri Feb 18 00:34:01 UTC 2005

On 17 Feb 2005, at 3:37 pm, Jim Trodel wrote:

> Editorial control is what we do everyday in deciding what stays in our 
> out. Censoring would be to delete all mention of a specific item 
> including systematically deleting any reference or access to the 
> subject matter. Censorship is not continuing to provide easy access to 
> information or images while not forcing it on everyone. Read Farenheit 
> 451 for (albiet extreme) real censorship - or other efforts in the 
> past to systemically burn books to remove them from the library and 
> prevent all access. Limiting access is often called censorship but is 
> not.

What you are pointing to are the different levels of censorship. This 
discussion may involve a proposal of low-level censorship but it is 
censorship none the less.

Christiaan