I wish different terminology would be used here.
"Premium" can refer to an actual MS product, as a Premium version browser and other Premium software for using MSN exists. I have it because MSN is bundled with my ISP. (It's an AOLish browser, and I have to use my regular ie browser whenever I want to modify functionality to the degree I want. I usually just use Mozilla these days for security reasons though.)
"Premier" seems to refer more to an economic relationship.
While reading the whole article for context helps, using both words as if interchangeable is initially confusing.
Blocking access to music download sites, as this university computer system has done, is not censorship anymore than halting people who are leaving a bookstore without paying or walking out of a public library without checking out the material is censorship. These are security steps necessary to preserve the economic background which FUELS CREATION of the media in the first place.
To construct a society based on free exchange of ideas, it is often necessary that the words used have actual meaning, rather than becoming semantically "null" by allowing every user of the word to make it have whatever referents they choose. Calling this censorship is silly.
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I wish different terminology would be used here. "Premium" can refer to an actual MS product, as a Premium version browser and other Premium software for using MSN exists. I have it because MSN is bundled with my ISP. (It's an AOLish browser, and I have to use my regular ie browser whenever I want to modify functionality to the degree I want. I usually just use Mozilla these days for security reasons though.) "Premier" seems to refer more to an economic relationship. While reading the whole article for context helps, using both words as if interchangeable is initially confusing.
Blocking access to music download sites, as this university computer system has done, is not censorship anymore than halting people who are leaving a bookstore without paying or walking out of a public library without checking out the material is censorship. These are security steps necessary to preserve the economic background which FUELS CREATION of the media in the first place. To construct a society based on free exchange of ideas, it is often necessary that the words used have actual meaning, rather than becoming semantically "null" by allowing every user of the word to make it have whatever referents they choose. Calling this censorship is silly.