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Originally Posted by CleverClothe
Why do you keep trying to turn a moral argument into a legal one?
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My response was to a comment suggesting that (public) schools and businesses were similar in nature, and they're not. There are legal requirements that necessarily make it so.
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Originally Posted by CleverClothe
Schools and libraries can and do censor books.
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Agreed. And they do so via a different mechanism than a business choosing whether to sell a title
because it's legally required.
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Originally Posted by CleverClothe
Censorship is an action whose definition is devoid of a judgement of right or wrong (about the action).
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...but then you contradict yourself by saying:
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Originally Posted by CleverClothe
I believe that there is good censorship, like when a parent keeps explicit material away from their child. Or a school doing the same thing. Or the FCC having requirements for shows using the public airwaves (though I take issue with some specific choices of theirs).
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We keep things from kids because our societal understanding of right and wrong tells us we should do so. What's on MTV right now would have been considered borderline porn in the 50s and a good chunk of what's on broadcast TV would not have made the cut as recently as the '80s. So much for "devoid of a judgment of right or wrong". After all, it's only censorship if we disagree with it, right?