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Every few years, like clockwork, the pop-music industry presents to the American public for its delectation a rock star so base, so vile, so offensive to common decency, that he must be stifled.
Laybourne now honors creative people at Oxygen Media by making sure that they don't have health insurance so their creativity isn't stifled by taking their kids to the doctor.
The rest of the 75 page section contains a mix of strong writers being stifled (or perhaps pre-emptively stifling themselves) and weak ones being given too much space to say too little.
A Wall Street Journal editorial on Internet taxation takes the position that Bill Clinton is right to support a sales tax moratorium, and Trent Lott wrong to oppose it, because the Internet is "the business infrastructure of the future," and hence its growth shouldn't be "stifled" by taxes.
Measures should be taken to ensure that their views and approaches, even if deemed unconventional, are not stifled by the newly established system.