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Back on topic for a sec.....lets look at the resoning behind censorship. Unlike a law, censorship is not an attempt to physically protect someone. It is an attempt to prevent someone from having to hear or see some form of media. I would place censorship in the same category as propoganda. One is forcing information on an unwary population, and the other is removing information from the same. Neither is acceptable to me.
If people are ignorant enough to believe propoganda, then its use is a powerful tool in the manipulation of the masses. If people are incapable of deciding for them selves what to watch/hear, and have a difficult time tuning it all out, that is a personal weakness, and I should not have to pay for it with the loss of information.
It upsets me that the government has the power to decide what media I am "allowed" to ingest, and seems to be nothing less than the loss of another freedom in this society.
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