chuck@dartvax.UUCP (Chuck Simmons) (01/14/85)
I must have missed something. Why would anyone (even the CIA)
want to censor news transmitted via the satelite? (How does one spell
that anyway?)
Along the same lines, I understand that in pre-revolutionary Russia
(and probably post-revolutionary as well) where the news was censored,
fictional literature became a medium for political commentary. Reviews
of literature and plays and even statistics analyses also held political
commentary.
This suggests that as long as a communications channel is open,
any idea can be transmitted across that channel, as long as the transmitter
and receiver are sufficiently more intelligent than the censor.
On the other hand, it might be argued that if you look deeply
enough into any piece of information (or maybe even random noise), then
eventually you will find any concept you care to look for.
I think the "censor" is a good idea. We can all hone our skills
at creating articles which contain concepts that the censor should
object to, but which are too subtley phrased to arouse the censor's
objections.
-- dartvax!chuck