On 9 May 2013 12:19, Anthony Cole
<ahcoleecu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
In your hypothetical case of Russian only being
spoken in one country
that
censors "how to smoke marijuana" information:
If you insist on leaving a paragraph on "how to make a bong" in the
Russian-language "Marijuana smoking" article, then the article won't be
accessible to 140,000,000 people; if you remove that paragraph (and any
others that are censored), the article, and its information about
psychosis, respiratory effects, geographic distribution, history,
correlation with tobacco smoking, gateway to harder drugs hypothesis,
etc.
will be available to 140,000,000 people.
The problem is that in the real world it doesn't stop there. States that
have found it easy to censor you once will continue doing so. Today its
about drugs tomorrow its Kirill I of Moscow's watch day after that its
anything critical of Putin. Since this is Russia I expect coverage of the
issue of homosexuality could get interesting.
--
geni
The Russian government censors historically and can be expected to do so
in the future. A dryer iteration of the marijuana article, omitting how
to grow and smoke as well as how "wonderful" dope is, will probably pass.
Remember, "assume good faith"? It is easy enough to work around, "Lucy in
the Sky with Diamonds" is not censored. I don't think the "slippery
slope" is all that slippery.
Fred