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echo: fidonews
to: DAVID DRUMMOND
from: JEFF SMITH
date: 2020-04-11 00:24:00
subject: Horrible Thought

   Hello David!

11 Apr 20 13:50, you wrote to me:

 JS>> Thinking before one speaks isn't censorship. It's simply common
 JS>> sense.

 DD> 
 DD> Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or
 DD> other information, on the basis that such material is considered
 DD> objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient." 

 DD> Self censorship maybe, but still censorship.

 Thats where we differ I guess. We are all free to say what we choose.
Saying and being able to say what one chooses is to me the basis of
free speech. We are free to choose or NOT to choose to say what we
think and feel.  Could be we differ on simple semantics.

Jeff


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