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I don't think this has anything to do with censorship. I haven't even had an opportunity to see a good enough photo of the statue to know if I absolutely don't like it, based on artistic quality or merit alone (though, so far, I don't care for it). Most people are traumatized by the television images of people jumping from the towers, so a statue of a victim on impact would be equally traumatic, not to mention too grotesque and violent for a young child to look at.
People go to specific places to mourn. Last year a gallery in New York opened temporarily displaying photos and videos from the 11th. Each image was extremely disturbing, but each person viewing the photos made a choice to go inside and deal with what they saw. Regardless of whether I like the statue, it may have a place in a different setting - just not in public where people who lost loved ones on 9/11 pass on the way to work every day.
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