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Section 11: Tactical / Training Subject: Conceal Carry Badge Msg# 915209
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I think you're more heavily invested in the negative connotations of "censorship" than am I. That isn't an inherently bad word just a description. Something can be both censorship and enforcement of good taste, or even a bow to the norm of your expected audience. While government censorship is usually the first definition, there are others more like the magazine example in most dictionaries. I know, I peeked! 
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: In the most common definition of censorship, it refers to official acts. We use the term in many other ways, but censorship, per se, almost always refers to government or institutional acts which repress expression of some sort. I have to come down on the side that says that if an entertainment magazine's advertising department refuses to accept business from a customer regardless of the legality of the item being sold because they object to the product on moral, intellectual, or common sense grounds it is not censorship. Example. Most public newsstand type magazines will not accept ads for products of a sexual nature--blow-up dolls or sex toys for example. I believe they are just exercising good taste. On the other hand I would also mention smoking ads but that is in fact government censorship at its worst, as smoking ads are restricted by law, while to the best of my knowledge it is perfectly legal to advertise vibrators in Good Housekeeping. But I suspect they don't. Obviously "know thy audience" is part of this equation, but I'm trying to decide if censorship is involved. You seem to think so, but then again you are a complete whack job Libertarian seeing Big Brother around every corner... |
...no, no--just kidding! 
In all seriousness, you are an honest champion of libertarian values, and while I try to have a libertarian outlook, I guess I believe that sometimes common sense doesn't always jive with true libertarian ideals. I say this is not censorship.