[WikiEN-l] Re: WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 20, Issue 142

Wed Mar 30 14:20:20 UTC 2005

Tony Sidaway said:

 >Absolutely. Why is this word so taboo? We all censor.

We all attempt to make the facts reflect the what we think is the truth.

Censorship isn't that.  Censorship is attempting to make the body of 
facts reflect a POV we wish to present as the truth.  Censorship is 
hiding the truth for other reasons.  It's a dirty word because it's also 
political, and generally unconstitutional; the censorship is meant to 
promote a particularly religious view of a moral issue that should be 
innocuous in a free society.  It's an attack on the freedom of the 
speaker by a body purporting a higher knowledge of morality.

Not all of us censor.  It should be a taboo.

--Blair