Response to Censorship on this news group

I have been following all this with interest. I must fully agree with George Papantoniou (papanton@hol.gr). Volker has made a point that is very important. Censorship is not part of democracy. Yes there can be excesses like the proverbial crying fire in a publis place when no fire exist. But Volker only raised questions that are very interesting. He did not harm anyone. We have a right to speculate on product manufacturing and free flow of information. But I would like to take this discussion further. In the USA we are the victims of censorship from large companies. The USA does not have any significant manufacture of B & W materials and chemicals. Without Europe there would be a huge void. There are many wonderfjul products in Europe that never reach the USA. I know of one very excellant film that stepped on the toes of the Yellow Father. Thus it was not available. But justice was served. The Yellow Father was shut out of Japan by Fuji. I understnad that dealers in Japan were told they would not receive Fuji Product if Yellow father products were sold. This is a kind of censorship that hurts the free flow of products. I can understnad that many fine products do not reach the USA because of economic reasons but I wonder if the reasons go beyond that fact. The world gets smaller and smaller and we get closer to "One World". Take the EU for instance. So what we need is free flow of Black and White information and products.

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