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Re: [ontolog-forum] What words mean

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From: Bill Andersen <andersen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:27:53 -0500
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You forgot to include the ACLU, most major university administrations,  
and Code Pink in your list of worthy censors, Chris.    (01)

;-D    (02)

On Feb 18, 2008, at 10:23 , Christopher Menzel wrote:    (03)

>> I am not going to say anything about the  pain that  lack of
>> political correctness throughout history has brought upon humanity,
>> however, I am sure an application can be built to parse all the
>> politically incorrect statements that exist on the web and modify
>> them accordingly to bring them up to current acceptable standards of
>> ethics (else archived them under 'obsolete' label)
>
> Not only is the idea technically completely impossible to implement
> but it's, well, kinda creepy.  Who's supposed to decide what's
> offensive?  The Bush administration?  The Chinese gov't?  Your local
> imam?  The suggestion seems to me to amount to the suppression of free
> speech.  I'll take the current anarchy any day, thanks. :-)
>
> -chris
>
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