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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