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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Re: Should there be censorship???
- Message-ID: <By6yJH.HpI@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:59:40 GMT
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- cmort@NCoast.ORG (Christopher Morton) writes:
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- [...]
- >The broadcaster should provide a warning prior to airing the footage.
- >This is already general practice in the US.
- [...]
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- I would add that the warning "requirement" should be enforced by
- social pressure, not by government pressure.
-
- - Carl
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- library/labeling.ala
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- * Labeling (ALA)
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- An interpretation by the American Library Association of the "Library
- Bill of Rights"
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- It gives three reasons why labeling is bad. The first is that
- "[l]abeling is an attempt to prejudice attitudes and as such, it is a
- censor's tool."
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