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Mike McNally
m5 at vail.tivoli.com
Thu Jul 18 01:54:24 PDT 1996
Robert A. Hayden wrote:
> <rant>A Private organization cannot "censor" anything. The fundamental
> definition of the word require some agent of the government take action
> to censor.
I think you need a new dictionary. I don't see any reason why I shouldn't
use the word "censor" to describe the action of a parent clipping articles
from "Weekly Reader", for example.
Whether some instance of censorship is interesting in a legal sense of
course hinges on whether a government is involved.
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