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MIT Police Suspended For Trashing Student Newspaper
Apparently, two police officers at MIT have been suspended after they decided that students at the university shouldn’t see a front page story about another MIT police officer caught dealing drugs — so they dumped hundreds of copies of the paper in the trash (well, actually a recycling bin — they may want to censor, but not clog landfills, apparently). Of course, it really makes you wonder what they hoped to accomplish. The MIT paper, The Tech, is available online, including the article in question. Throwing out the papers probably did little (if anything) to stop people from reading about the incident — and simply ended up calling more attention to questionable activities by MIT police. All of this, of course, highlights yet another nice benefit to online newspapers: people can’t throw them out to try to hide what’s in them.

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