[WikiEN-l] Fwd: Opt Out for Not So Notable Biographies

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 9 Apr 2007 at 13:21:19 -0600, "Rob Smith" <nobs03 at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> So it's a simple question: the industry either self-regulates, or the
> government will self-regulate you on your behalf.

It was pretty much the exact same line of argument that led, in the 
1950s, to the Comics Code Authority, a "voluntary" industrywide 
agreement to stifle the medium of comic books with a rigid, 
repressive code holding it back to the blandest possible content 
instead of leaving its artists and writers free to explore the wide 
range of human experience as other literary and artistic media could 
do.  It took decades for the comics medium to escape that prison 
which it had built for itself.

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