What do Republicans consider more essential to liberty: censorship or redacting?

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• That last comment was so stereotypical I can't even imagine what to say next.

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  by jeb800e on November 1st, 2009

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• Hey AR, if we don't know what the military is doing, how can we be sure they're doing the right thing? +3

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  by Stevie on November 3rd, 2009

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• Good job Bob. +4

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  by Stevie on November 3rd, 2009

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• no they aren't

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  by Slightly less anonymous on December 6th, 2009

• What is the difference then?

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  by Randoley on December 6th, 2009

• why are people incapable of using dictionaries?
   
  well, for starters, both of them are very old words that don't originally have much to do with the current context. in the most general sense that covers most of the definitions:
   
  redact means to reduce, or combine, compress. it often has to do with the written word and many of the definitions refer to words or editing processes, but also with corporeal things
   
  censor refers to office holders of various types or the power of the office (this is the noun, not the verb)--the verb comes specifically from one definition: "One who exercises official or officious supervision over morals and conduct"--this definition includes officials who's duty it is to inspect books, movies, etc, to make sure that they contain nothing immoral, heretical, offensive, etc to the government

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  by Slightly less anonymous on December 6th, 2009

• in this specific context, the definitions you're looking for are:
   
  redact: to obscure or remove (text) from a document prior to publication or release
   
  to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable <censor the news>; also :to suppress or delete as objectionable <censor out indecent passages
   
   
  are they similar? of course. they both have to do with suppression of information. but there's a lot of censorship that isn't redaction. and there's redaction, that believe it or not, isn't really censorship. redacting documents so that when released to the public they don't let loose that our government cracked a foreign governments code isn't censorship by the actual definition of the word. people loosely use the word censorship to mean, "anything you don't tell me/refuse to tell me" but it's the governments responsibility to sorta not broadcast troop movements and things like that in advance, not the other way around

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  by Slightly less anonymous on December 6th, 2009

• fyi, someone on this question already explained the difference between the two. you couldn't spend two seconds looking it up? or at least reading the other answers to see if it had come up elsewhere on the question? why?

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  by Slightly less anonymous on December 6th, 2009

• I like making you feel superior.

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  by Randoley on December 6th, 2009

• Yes, because taking a few seconds to go look at a dictionary, copy/paste and explain it, makes me feel like I'm seriously wasting my time. I'm not engaging in conversation, or even explaining something to someone that they can't do on their own. I'm spoonfeeding someone because they are lazy--who feels superior doing that? You want to make me feel like I've accomplished something, then learn from this in some way, so that the next time you talk to someone online you do so from an informed place, you take time to look things up and you're an interesting person to exchange ideas and debate with. That would make me feel like I got something out of this.

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  by Slightly less anonymous on December 6th, 2009

• You like to right lengthy replies, then act aggravated about having to do it don't you?

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  by Randoley on December 6th, 2009

• Not particularly. I think and type quickly. Time-wise there is little difference for me. I'm annoyed by what is being said, not the length or the length my response has to take, though the char limit on boxes and forcing clean line breaks is annoying.

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  by Slightly less anonymous on December 7th, 2009

• what is annoying you?

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  by Randoley on December 7th, 2009

• Seriously?

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  by Slightly less anonymous on December 7th, 2009

• yep.

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  by Randoley on December 7th, 2009

• Go up to the comment that starts "Not particularly."   Hint: its two (of my) comments ago.
   
  Go to the end of the first line--where it starts: "I'm annoyed by..."
   
  Read that sentence.

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  by Slightly less anonymous on December 7th, 2009

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