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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
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Subject: Re: Private Opinions: an Inquiry
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Date: Sat, 25-Feb-84 12:35:47 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 25 12:35:47 1984
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First, I'd like to point out that moderation is not the same as censorship.
Moderation is the protection *of a newsgroup* from whatever the moderator
deems it needs protection from (usually too much traffic).  Censorship is
where someone tries to prevent information from getting out to the public.
As long as there are some unmoderated newsgroups (and of course, there will
always be lots of these) people always have a way to get info out, in the
worst case the submitter may have to choose their second choice newsgroup,
and usually the moderator will suggest a more appropriate newsgroup.

I'd also like to point out that perhaps half the people on Usenet are
subject to some sort of censorship: they usually have access to proprietary
information of their employers, and they aren't allowed to post this info.
Often they are not allowed to publicly discuss details of what they are
working on.  And, of course, most of us have access to UNIX, and the UNIX
license prevents us from posting pieces of UNIX to a public place such as
Usenet.

	Mark Horton