In an office about 100 miles south of Washington, D.C., a group of 20 government regulators holds monthly meetings to make decisions about public morality. They call themselves the Word Committee, a title so sinister in its simplicity that it sounds like a branch of Nineteen Eighty-Four’s Ministry of Truth. It’s an unsettling prospect but for one detail: The Word Committee is part of then Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, and its charge is to evaluate requests for personalized license plates. READ MORE ››
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