Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-21-2010

[andrewducker]

• Oakland green lights industrial marijuana cultivation
  (tags: marijuana drugs)
• Why not censorship?
  (tags: freespeech censorship)
• I didn't know Conversation had rules!
  (tags: conversation communication psychology aspergers)
• The Gender Stereotype Game
  (tags: gender stereotypes)
• Scots drink a quarter more alcohol than other Brits
  (tags: alcohol uk scotland)
• A screenwriter has a very strange encounter, and writes the best blog post I've read this year.
  (tags: writing crime reality)
• Entanglement - a simple, but addictive, HTML5 game
  (tags: games javascript puzzles)
• Sharp launches world first Android netbook -kinda.
  (tags: Telephone android)
• PressThink: Objectivity as a Form of Persuasion.
  (tags: journalism ethics media bias news)
• Scottish rents rise as home buyers opt to rent
  The best performing city in Scotland is Edinburgh, where the average rent for a one bed flat in the city now stands at £520 - a rise of 3.2% compared with last year - while the average cost for a two-bedroom flat has risen 4.6% to £680.
  (tags: scotland housing)
• The differences between Civil Partnerships and Marriage.
  (tags: marriage law)
• SNP to outlaw smutty innuendo. They can fuck off.
  (tags: sex freespeech scotland EpicFail)
• Sony files patent on using stereoscopic lenses to allow two people to share a screen without seeing what the other does.
  (tags: 3d technology games)
• The former head of MI5 says that the invasion of Iraq substantially increased the terrorist threat to the UK.
  (tags: terrorism uk war iraq)

Comments

[usmu.livejournal.com]

Here:s what I'm working with

Censorship: the limiting of free speech.
Free speech: the expression of ideas through any form of communication by a given entity.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

By your definition, you would be censoring me should I write "dirty, dirty" with my fingertip in the dust on your car and you wash your car at any time thereafter. Your definitions are excessively broad, to the point of becoming meaningless.

-- Steve can define "food" as "stuff you put in your mouth", but that doesn't make pens, air, thumbs, cigarettes, and genitalia provide sustenance.

[usmu.livejournal.com]

For anything to be a proper definition it needs to meet two criteria:
1) it must include everything of the thing you want to define
2) it must exclude everything not of the thing you want to define

Your definition of food does not meet the second criteria. I don't think my definition of censorship has a similar problem.

As to it being broad... Censorship is not a large single homogeneous entity, but a building made up of bricks. Person vs person - Group vs. person - Group vs. Group, but to name a few. Some bricks that are very bad, some mildly so and some pretty much harmless. For me the point is recognizing that, describing the different kinds of censorship and discussing whether they serve a genuine purpose ar not. A