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And yet another step over the line... this time into actual, real cennsorship (i.e. the restriction by the government in what we are allowed to publish)
Treasury Department Is Warning Publishers of the Perils of Criminal Editing of the Enemy
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: February 28, 2004
Writers often grumble about the criminal things editors do to their prose. The federal government has recently weighed in on the same issue — literally.
It has warned publishers they may face grave legal consequences for editing manuscripts from Iran and other disfavored nations, on the ground that such tinkering amounts to trading with the enemy.
Anyone who publishes material from a country under a trade embargo is forbidden to reorder paragraphs or sentences, correct syntax or grammar, or replace "inappropriate words," according to several advisory letters from the Treasury Department in recent months.
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My Republican-thinking spouse doesn't see how this is censorship. I'm not sure what he thinks censorship IS.
Treasury Department Is Warning Publishers of the Perils of Criminal Editing of the Enemy
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: February 28, 2004
Writers often grumble about the criminal things editors do to their prose. The federal government has recently weighed in on the same issue — literally.
It has warned publishers they may face grave legal consequences for editing manuscripts from Iran and other disfavored nations, on the ground that such tinkering amounts to trading with the enemy.
Anyone who publishes material from a country under a trade embargo is forbidden to reorder paragraphs or sentences, correct syntax or grammar, or replace "inappropriate words," according to several advisory letters from the Treasury Department in recent months.
( Read more... )
My Republican-thinking spouse doesn't see how this is censorship. I'm not sure what he thinks censorship IS.
