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From: flash@ee.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
Newsgroups: news.misc,rec.mag
Subject: Playboy Censored in England (was: News slanted by censorship?)
Summary: What's after the centerfold in the July issue?
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Date: 27 Jun 88 15:50:47 GMT
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>> I suspect that Canadian law gives the government much greater opportunity
>> for censorship than US law; certainly British law does, and the laws of
most
> West European countries as well.

>Maybe, maybe not.
>...
>Freedom of the press *started* in Britain.  I think that their
>(British and west european) libel and invasion of privacy laws are
>much stricter, creating an illusion of censorship.

You obviously haven't followed the Spycatcher affair.

What's after the centerfold in the July issue of Playboy?  All the copies in
England have been censored.  _Please_ be cryptic in your response, if you
post, otherwise sysops could go to jail.

From: flash@ee.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
Reply-To: sheridan@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
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