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To: ConservingFreedom; Responsibility2nd; muir_redwoods; GeronL; metmom; trisham; BykrBayb; ...
He had a sentence after that period: "But I’m opposed to outside censorship." Sounds libertarian-friendly to me.

Hey retread, Reagan's opposition to OUTSIDE censorship implies that he would welcome SELF-CENSORSHIP.

And just where, exactly, did you come up with the notion that opposition to censorship is even a libertarian principle? Opposition to GOVERNMENT is a libertarian principle, opposition to censorship is a conservative principle.

101 posted on 08/26/2014 7:28:33 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee
He had a sentence after that period: "But I’m opposed to outside censorship." Sounds libertarian-friendly to me.

Hey retread, Reagan's opposition to OUTSIDE censorship implies that he would welcome SELF-CENSORSHIP.

Are you claiming that self-censorship is somehow nonlibertarian?

And just where, exactly, did you come up with the notion that opposition to censorship is even a libertarian principle? Opposition to GOVERNMENT is a libertarian principle

Opposition to violation of individual liberties, by government or others, is a libertarian principle - and it's usually if not always governments that impose outside censorship, which is a violation of individual liberties. QED.

104 posted on 08/26/2014 8:12:00 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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