Word: anticensorship
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...finding their voice - and not just art-house mavericks like Apichatpong. The Thai Film Directors' Association is lobbying lawmakers not to pass the act in its current form. Prachya Pinkaew, director of international martial-arts hits Ong-Bak and Tom Yum Goong, now sports a NO CUT, NO BAN anticensorship T shirt...
...unwanted porn e-mail or the hamburger commercial with a woman lasciviously riding a mechanical bull. It's watching a sports program with your young child and hearing the host blurt, "A______!" Tim Tutt, a single, third-grade teacher in Des Moines, calls himself "a liberal, anticensorship person." But he was furious when he visited a website for his students and up popped an ad with a sexy blond. "Boy, did I lose control of the class for a moment," he says. "Then I felt this conservative rage within me--'Why was that necessary?'" People care, in other words, about...
...Anticensorship advocates responded hotly to suggestions that the Internet was responsible. But clearly the technology can facilitate some strange behavior. Communicating anonymously "leads to the Mardi Gras phenomenon," says Paul Gilster, who has written five books about computers. Because "you're wearing a mask, you feel you can act and speak with impunity...
...local and state races they contested nationwide. Since then, the conservatives have intensified their focus on school boards. "They provide a local forum at the grass-roots level in every community around which they can build a political network," says Michael Hudson of People for the American Way, an anticensorship watchdog group. "There is always something in the schools that mirrors cultural problems, whether sex education or AIDS or evolution." The strategy of the religious right, he says, is to "find a controversy in the schools that stirs up a lot of energy among local churches, then run candidates using...
...anticensorship lobby, People for the American Way, fears that the board's concessions could send the wrong message to nervous publishers or fire up Fundamentalists elsewhere. But California's superintendent of public instruction, Bill Honig, contends that advocacy of evolution remains firmly in place; irate California Fundamentalists agree...