IP: Politically correct?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> From: Whitfield Diffie <whitfield.diffie () eng sun com>
>
>
>
>                                 Sunday  18 March 2001  at 09h39
>
> > the politically correct DOE software balked at the word "naked."
>
>     I don't known where you quoted this from but the author's description
> of this policy as political correctness seems excessively tolerant.  If
> DOE is running a censorship system (on its email, I presume) that blocks
> messages with the word `naked,' it denies itself discussion of the ``naked
> truth,'' the ``naked mole rat,'' ``naked aggression'' and many other things.
>
>     I find this so outlandish that as to suppress rational political
> response.  Presumably whoever did it thinks that the organization has a
> right to adopt speech policies, whereas this action strikes me as a
> violation of the rights of at least two important sets of people: those
> obliged to use the censored email system and the people of the United
> States who are entitled to have a rational organization managing their
> nuclear weapons.
>
>                                         Whit



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