[Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

[Theo10011]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Achal Prabhala <aprabhala at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Friday 30 September 2011 11:19 PM, Theo10011 wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Achal Prabhala<aprabhala at gmail.com
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> > How about an encyclopedia? Anywhere?
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> > Are you suggesting a rating system for an encyclopedia?
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> No.
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> I'm suggesting that:
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> Ratings are different from censorship.
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Actually, it's a matter of perspective if you consider that. If you read the
history Censorship in United States, it has an entire section about Film
censorship[1], also of relevance might be the MPAA crticism section [2] or
Tipper gore led Parent's Music resource center [3]. My question was, has
there been an instance of an encyclopedia being censored or even rated?


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> Sometimes, ratings can be used to create censorship.
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> Often, ratings do just that - rate.
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They actually restrict access, those ratings limit who can see a certain
movie, depending upon the classification. Again, it is a matter of
perspective.


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> For film.
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> In several countries around the world, including India, and Germany.
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Theo


[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_States#Film_censorship
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America_film_rating_system#Criticisms
[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Music_Resource_Center