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(Based on a Twitter exchange I had recently with Emmett Shear.)

VCs should have methods of reducing their risk other than limiting the amount of money they give, and the Hollywood studio system shows ways to do this.

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A friend on Facebook asked:

• In what circumstances is censorship the right answer, or is it /ever/ the right answer?
• Are there specific types of content that ought to be limited/ censored?
• Do the morals (or other qualities) of the director/producer/writer/actor/artist etc. warrant censorship?

I responded:

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I wrote up the explanation below a few months ago when someone sent me an email thanking me for my LSAT guide and asking me why I didn’t go to law school.  I ended up sending the guy a one-sentence explanation instead, but I figured the full explanation would make a good blog post, and I’m just now getting around to posting it:

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