RE: censoring films

["Rick Anderson" <rickand@unr.edu>]

> The debate in Utah began four years ago when an American Fork company,
> Sunset Video, found a profitable business in clipping a nude scene from
> hundreds of video copies of "Titanic" brought to them by owners. The
> concept of so-called "family-friendly" videos was well-received in Utah
> and other religiously conservative parts of the country

Gosh, and it seems like just a minute ago that we were energetically
defending the "rights of consumers to do what they want with products
they've purchased."  Well, we all know what Ralph Waldo Emerson said about
consistency...  :-)

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