Word: censor
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...that freedom of speech is not in danger on this campus. After the student newspaper at Governors State University (GSU) criticized the school’s administration, the dean said the paper had to be approved before publication, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Harvard administrators do not censor student publications, even when administrators are concerned about their content, Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd said yesterday. “There are always one or two high-profile cases every year dealing with freedom of the press or freedom of speech in higher education...
...taste of portraying Muhammad with a bomb on his head, people have found a reassuring port in the storm: their belief in the political miracle of free speech. In Western democracies, the right to express an idea, no matter how offensive, always trumps the impulse of the offended to censor. No government should be able to jail a cartoonist or newspaper editor for what they publish, or block the distribution of provocative material in advance. That's what Europeans believe, and their laws allow. Right? Well, actually, no. In general, European law favors the right to say and publish unpopular...
...that Ramadan, the grandson of the founder of the Egyptian opposition group Muslim Brotherhood, has been unfairly banned from visiting the country on the basis of a Patriot Act statute meant to deny entry to those who endorse terrorism. “The government is using this law to censor and manipulate political debate,” said Eck, the Wertham professor of law and psychiatry in society. Eck said that she was shocked when she learned that Ramadan, a Swiss citizen and currently a visiting professor at Oxford University, had been denied entry to the United States...
...marriage when it means staying faithful to one man. This fall the Beijing resident posted a recording of her own lovemaking sounds that would make Paris Hilton blush. More than 50,000 people simultaneously tried to download the 25-minute podcast, crashing the host server. Despite government attempts to censor it, the sex diary is so popular that Li's pen name is intermittently the most searched keyword on China's top search engine. "I express my freedom through sex," says Li, unapologetically. "It's my life, and I can do what I want...
...TIME: A documentary film was made locally about a Singapore opposition politician, and it was banned. LEE: Well, if you had asked me, I would have said, to hell with it. But the censor, the enforcer, he will continue until he is told the law has changed. And it will change...