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A Belated Response from Marquette
FIRE just received Marquette University鈥檚 response to our September 27 letter. Marquette said publicly that it sent us the letter on October 16, and the letter is indeed dated October 16, but the postmark is dated October 19, the day after 果冻传媒app官方鈥檚 press release on Marquette鈥檚 censorship of a Dave Barry quote. Curious indeed.
Even more curious is the explanation that Marquette President Robert Wild gives for censoring the quote. He writes, 鈥渢he original difficulty arose out of a misunderstanding鈥 [W]hen the quotation cited was posted, it was without attribution; therefore, someone reading the quotation may not have understood the humor/satire of Dave Barry.鈥
So, censorship is totally okay if the expression involved does not contain a footnote to a famous person? Got it. Thanks, Marquette.
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