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Originally Posted by PornoDoggy
Morgan - the idea that "only a government can commit censorship" may be true in certain technical way, but anyone with power has the ability to censor.
Doesn't matter in this context, anyway.
I don't think this is a censorship issue at all.
Aeon has taken an almost pathalogically sophmoric delight in telling me (and several others) how he'd love to see us eviserated, shot in the head, blah-blah-blah. Nobody really raised an objection. It's kind of like criticizing a victim of turrets for using profanity - they simply can't help it.
Banning aeon is no different than barring a drunk who can't handle his liquor from the local tavern.
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We're off topic, but yes, you're right porndoggy, anyone with power has the ability to censor. There is however, a difference between what would be called "censorship" by the powers that be in an organization in which one's participation is purely voluntary and the acts of the state. All organizations have rules. If one breaks the organization's rules, one loses membership.
This is an extremely complicated and multi-leveled topic. (The one we're on now, not the first one.) I could argue on either side of this one just as effectively...which is why I'm grateful I don't have to.