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WangnanJahad t1_iu2w9qx wrote

Reply to comment by EngineersAnon in Maine begins its removal of obscene vanity license plates by NCSUGrad2012

They are government owned plates. I get being scared of government taking away your rights to your property. License plates aren't YOUR property.

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EngineersAnon t1_iu2xc9y wrote

Regardless of the forum, do you trust the government to even-handedly apply a standard as vague as "community standards"? It's not a question of property, it's a question of censorship.

Fuck censors.

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2SticksPureRage t1_iu3ggw5 wrote

You do know up until the lepage administration did away with restrictions that the state was doing just fine with non obscene plates right? For like decades…

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thorgundersen t1_iu3sg0s wrote

It happened DURING the LePage admin, not BY it. Dunlap, a Democrat elected by the Maine legislature, was the Secretary of State who made the choice to stop censoring license plates base on the fact that it would cost the state a lot of money just to lose court cases. He decided not to die on that hill.

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sfurbish t1_iu45081 wrote

You do realize that this is coming down under the Mills administration with a democrat majority in the legislature. Perhaps not the best time to go pointing your political finger?

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sfurbish t1_iu44sec wrote

Funny how that works. The government requires you to register your vehicle. Then it mandates that you put plates on it (front and rear). Of course, they charge you for the costs of those plates, a bit extra if you want so-called vanity plates. And now they want to censor what you put on those plates that you paid for by claiming they are government property. I've come to expect the government to be overbearing, but you'd think the state legislature would have more important matters to resolve than nasty words on license plates?

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