[WikiEN-l] What's wrong with censorship?

Wed Mar 30 09:49:59 UTC 2005

Poor, Edmund W said:
>
> When a junior high school library decides not to shelve Lady
> Chatterly's Lover (or The Story of O), that is most definitely
> censorship.
...
>
> Complying with local, regional or national laws which forbid certain
> expressions or depictions is also censorship.
...
>
> Masking censorship by calling it "editorial decisions" sounds timid at
> best. Why not call a spade a spade?
>
Absolutely.  Why is this word so taboo?  We all censor.