On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Gwern Branwengwern0@gmail.com wrote:
More generally, my point is that the reasoning offered for the censorship is intellectually bankrupt.
Well let's not attribute to malice what better can be ascribed to corporate do-gooderness. Obviously, if the NYT, in presenting themselves to media, represented their case as being a tactic rather than simply a gesture of compliance, then they now have a little issue of journalistic integrity with everyone they dealt with.
I would have said "corporate integrity," but everyone would easily figure out that was a pun.
-Stevertigo