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To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (36581)	5/2/1999 1:12:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) of 108807

> I want someone to explain to me why his hate-filled bigotry falls within SI's guidelines. I want someone to explain to me why these kinds of vicious, racist attacks are permissible. Why, SI, is this piece of filth given a forum? < I will venture a supposition here. Censorship is the weapon of last resort in a society that pretends to value liberty and the worth of the individual citizen. Censorship is reserved for things like kid porn, bad words in a family place, video of ritual murder ... that kind of stuff. EE is careful to mind his language - so he steers clear of the more mechanistic criteria for censorship. While we all agree that his ideas are unattractive, a philosophical question rears its head. At which point does an opinion become so ugly as to merit banishment? It's a very tough call imho. I for one would rather shoulder the burden of clicking over the occasional online abscess. The alternative is a curtailment of the freedom of what I can say here - either in jest or in dead earnest. EE is the distillate of the price we pay for free speech on SI.

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