On 22/02/2008, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Censorship is the suppression or deletion of material, which may be considered objectionable, harmful or sensitive
How exactly would you suggest one do this without placing barriers
between people and information?
You couldn't. But conversely, merely putting barriers between people and information doesn't make it censorship. It's when you make the information largely or completely *inaccessible* by normal means that it becomes censorship (and even that's probably not sufficient condition, but it is a necessary one).
To take a trivial example, if I wrap a book up to send it through the post, that's putting barriers between people and information, but it's not censorship.
If I move information into a different article but leave a link to it in the original article, then that's also not censorship. We do that kind of thing *all* the time. It's putting a barrier between the information and people, but it's absolutely *not* censorship.
-- geni