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Originally Posted by OTW
Would newspaper theft be considered a form of censorship because technically the thief is denying others access to the press?
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Probably in some Orwellian/grassroots way. I don't know. I always thought authority figures did the censoring, while potential readers chose to not take in the information. This is more complex than I thought after reading the first post.
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Originally Posted by LaneSig
I know and understand. I was being ironic.
But, I am sure that if a lawyer wanted to argue that the papers are free and the boys took 'extra' he could. Probably all the way to the state Supreme Court.
My question: Did the paper try and contact the chapter president or advisor to ask for comments or their perspective? I know that in the case at ASU, the paper printed false information (they were unaware). When the chapter found out, they asked the editors to correct the information and received a "Well, that's the way we heard it." reply. That's what made a couple of our guys angry enough to go and try to remove the papers.
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I never thought about that. Probably, if every brother involved got an equal amount of envelopes and stamps and claimed they were going to mail the their fraternity's "press release" to their brothers and family, they could technically just be sharing their "good news" with people. They just have thousands of family members for some reason. I've taken a plethora of campus newspapers when my brothers and I have been mentioned in it, but really only for good reasons. If the paper was to slander us in any way, I know I would "accidentally" spill my coffee all over a few newspaper racks.