TDPL a bad idea?

[Jonathan M Davis]

Rainer Deyke wrote:

> BCS wrote:
>> Anything a group does to it's self is not censorship. Censorship is
>> where someone from the outside imposes controls.
> 
> By that definition, there is no censorship in China, because it's
> something the group (i.e. China) does to itself.
> 
> 

Except that you could argue that the government is censoring it for the 
people, thereby making it an outside force imposing control on the inside. 
Merriam-Webster's online definition would tend to go with the whole "outside 
force" idea: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/censor . Generally 
speaking, censorship refers to one group cutting out or blocking material 
from coming into contact with another group, but you might be able to argue 
that it doesn't _have_ to be an outside force. Still, in any kind of normal 
use, it would be.

- Jonathan M Davis