From: Mike McNally <m5@vail.tivoli.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 16:54:24 +0800
To: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@krypton.mankato.msus.edu>
Subject: Re: Surf-filter lists
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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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