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From: flash@ee.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
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Subject: Re: Playboy Censored in England (was: News slanted by censorship?)
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Date: 4 Jul 88 10:35:49 GMT
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In article <1011@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) writes:
>
>
>In article <519@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>, flash@qmc-cs.UUCP writes:
>> I write:
>> >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.
>
>to your job.  Blech.  Just prior-censorship instead of post.  At least
>the Spycatcher stuff got to America.  If it was the other way around,
>the U.S. would be suing to have copies in *all* countries returned and
>destroyed.
>

Wrong.  Ex CIA agents have to get their stuff cleared to publish it;
frequently stuff gets taken out.  Wright's lawyer made a similar offer to
Thatcher very early on, and was turned down. 
I wouldn't have been too terribly upset if the tradecraft in Spycatcher had
been taken out, just so long as the treason had been left in.  In the
States, this would have happened.  Look at John (?) Adams, the CIA fellow
who revealed General Westmoreland's improprieties.

From: flash@ee.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
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