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To: Stone Mountain

"You personally may not have, but a whole bunch of people here did. Clear Channel eventually decided to quit playing them because of the number of complaints they received. That's not censorship. If the government took her off the air, that would be censorship. Giving your readers/listeners what they want is merely good business practice."

Your ignorance on this issue is unbounded.

Again it is a childish myth that only governments can censor.

Churches censor. Newspapers censor. Film commissions censor.

People censor themselves all the time. Which is probably a good thing, or I would say something about your resorting to idiotic arguments to try to destroy someone that might get me banned.

And, yes, even Free Republic censors.

Sheesh.


59 posted on 03/09/2007 6:28:12 PM PST by Sam Hill
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To: Sam Hill

Censor:1: a person who supervises conduct and morals: as a: an official who examines materials (as publications or films) for objectionable matter b: an official (as in time of war) who reads communications (as letters) and deletes material considered sensitive or harmful.

Don't confuse normal montoring, selection, and/or elimination of speech and writing by indiviuals with the censoring by government officials.


64 posted on 03/09/2007 6:41:47 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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