I've gotten the idea from the long and various Clitoral Hoods threads
that many people in the department think

	It's OK to take a political poster off the wall if it offends you.

  Now that action is censorship, whether taken in the name of the
public morals or research in computer science.  And it's not illegal
or anything.  But there seems to be some sort of anti-censorship
"political correctness" on this bboard that prevents anyone from
actually admitting that they want to censor something.  It's probably
because their high school civics teacher told them all about the evils
of censorship, and they wouldn't want to do anything un-American.

  Hence the threads where the free complain about the censorship while
the righteous complain about their work environment and remind us that
they're anti-censorship as long as they don't ever have to see
anything offensive.

  I want to make it clear here that I'm not insulting or disparaging
people by calling them pro-censorship, I just think they should come
out openly and say that "we're in favor of censorship in the publicly
visible parts of university buildings so that it will be easier for us
to do our work".

Now for a new subject: the great popularity of censorship when not
described with such an ugly name.

  I imagine that the openly Clitoral Hoods could distribute their
message more effectively (and hence offend more people) by standing in
the Cut near the entrance to Wean offering their posters to people and
shouting some of their slogans.  I would hope that the pro-censorship
crowd would back off from "I shouldn't have to see it" censorship of a
real live human being.

  Unfortunately I have a great deal of confidence that if the real
live human being said something offensive enough (whether Women like
sex, Abortion is evil, Wofford is great, or The Jews must all be
rounded up into concentration camps before they take over the world),
some citizen would call the cops and the real live human being would
be dragged off to jail on some dubious count of disturbing the peace.

  To back this up I point out an incident in Skokie a few years ago.
Skokie is a Jewish suburb of Chicago, sort of like Squirrel hill but
more suburban.  Some group of militant Nazi's were trying to get a
permit for a march down Main St.  It took the ACLU's involvement and
several court hearings, AND this was so unpopular that the ACLU lost
membership over it.

America, land of the free.  The Nazi's got to march.