Cyberspace Censorship Not the Answer

The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s “raising the stakes” in the Internet censorship debate is unfortunate (“Group Seeks to Muzzle Cyberhate,” Jan. 11). If successful, others of more dubious agenda will follow, and online access providers will be reduced to providing no more than politically correct pap.

Denying the Holocaust, however absurd, is a step removed from violation of the law, and will only lead us further into the PC world. Though there will always be kooks and hatemongers among us, our Constitution makes that no violation of law: Argument is more persuasive than invective or censorship.

A society offering media of only censored, politically correct information will ultimately fall into the hands of the kind who caused the Holocaust, bringing more of the same to the politically incorrect of the time. Do we want that? I think not.

CARL G. HOKANSON

Van Nuys