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Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
They're picking on we deaf people.
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The word "censor" appears six times in this article. I'm sorry, but this isn't censorship. The goverment isn't
preventing the media outlets from providing closed captioning, they're just declining to help fund the closed captioning. Sure, the process to select which shows are granted goverment funds is pretty mind-bendingly dumb, but that's just the way the government operates.
So many people whip out the "censorship!" flag these days where it just plain isn't. If the government declines to pay a station money to add closed captioning to Bewitched, the station can pay for that themselves... it's not censorship. If a university removes a student's website from their servers because it's deemed inappropriate, that makes them close-minded, stick-in-the-mud fucktards; but they're within their rights, and nothing prevents the student from hosting the site elsewhere... it's not censorship. Declining to support somone's message is WAY different from making an effort to smother that message. Freedom of Speech guarantees that you can say what you like, but it doesn't guarantee that anyone is going to help you say it.
Playing the censorship card is like taking antibiotics... if either is used too liberally where it's not appropriate, it will lose it's effectiveness to the point of being worthless.
Alan's philosophy #51: Never assume something's sinister if it can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Ok, I'm done now.