Battle against censorship


	Battle against censorship

jonhatespigeons

11-23-2007 10:33 AM

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jonhatespigeons says:

This was on wikipedias main page today. It interested me, and hope it does you too!

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11-23-2007 6:42 PM

Rashid Malik

So Milton was a modernist.

11-26-2007 11:30 AM

jonhatespigeons

I guess so Rashid.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1d3187af-5519-4a66-8063-3249ecd9fdf7/F80262D9-EE89-46D2-BB88-0B07411D0E9A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Areopagitica&oldid=173258455" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Areopagitica&oldid=173258455" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Areopagitica&oldid=173258455"><I><B>Areopagitica: A speech of Mr John Milton for the liberty of unlicensed printing to the Parliament of England</B></I> is a <A title="Prose" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prose">prose</A> <A title="Tract (literature)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tract_%28literature%29">tract</A> or <A title="Polemic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polemic">polemic</A> by <A title="John Milton" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton">John Milton</A>, published <A title="November 23" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_23">November 23</A>, <A title="1644" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1644">1644</A>, at the height of the <A title="English Civil War" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War">English Civil War</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Areopagitica&oldid=173258455">Milton had no intention of delivering his speech orally. 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