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CDC gets list of forbidden words

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382 points js2 | 2 comments | 16 Dec 17 02:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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beebmam ◴[16 Dec 17 03:41 UTC] No.15937380[source]▶
Censoring the CDC, of all organizations. What a travesty. The entire world looks to the US CDC for guidelines.

Let's be clear: The political right in the US pretends to care about free speech until they get serious political power.

It wasn't too long ago that conservatives were strongly against the depiction of violence and sex in video games.

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1. purple-again ◴[16 Dec 17 06:34 UTC] No.15938149[source]▶
If i remember my history right it was Hillary Clinton that championed the attempts to ban Mortal Kombat during Bills presidency.
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2. djur ◴[16 Dec 17 07:10 UTC] No.15938275[source]▶
Nope. There was never any concerted effort to ban Mortal Kombat in the US, and Hillary Clinton was not involved with it. You may be thinking about Tipper Gore, who was part of the campaign in the '80s that resulted in the infamous "Parental Advisory - Explicit Content" label on records.