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To: tejek who wrote (340649)	6/19/2007 2:21:05 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1577931

Formal censorship is imposed by law. Informal is what's socially unacceptable. Censorship is like when you can not speak your mind for fear of legal and/or physical retribution. Truely formal censorship would be when the government forbids you from saying what it doesn't like. Lawsuits or illegal/not approved physical retribution would more properly fit the label of informal censorship. Fear that someone else might get offended causing you to hold your tongue might be called self-censorship. I'd never refer to self-censorship, as just censorship. Its a very different idea, and conflating them just causes confusion.