From: kadie@hal.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M Kadie) Newsgroups: alt.censorship Subject: Re: What motivates censors? Date: 5 Nov 94 18:01:47 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <39bjh3$i5p@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <39geld$7qa@giga.bga.com> Warren Rayle (aa565@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote: > Perhaps we should think about the kind of people who want censorship, > and speculate a bit about what makes them tick. There is no need to speculate: "No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral." -- Judge Robert H. Bork, _The Tempting of America: The Political Seductino of the Law_ (The Free Press, 1990), p. 123 [Quoted in Garry Wills, _Under God_ (Simon and Schuster, 1990), p. 272. "Every clash between a minority claiming freedom and a majority claiming power to reulgate involves a choice between the gratification of the two groups ... [and] why is sexual gratification more worth than moral gratification?" -- Judge Robert H. Bork, "Neutral Principles and Some First Amendment Problems", _Indiana Law Journal_, Fall 1971, p. 9 [Quoted in Garry Wills, _Under God_ (Simon and Schuster, 1990), p. 272. ============ - Carl -- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent any organization; this is just me. = Email: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu = = URL: