Word: censor
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Illingworth, who ultimately decides which groups can poster in the Yard, wrote in an e-mail to Mucha that the College generally “does not censor posters and other written materials.” Illingworth said he has not seen the group’s posters and would consider the issue further if he finds one still hanging...
...implied that maybe there should be censorship, but if they [members of HoCo] accept the power to censor, they accept responsibility,” Pilkiewicz said...
...Osama is reading the scientific literature? That’s the question the editors of some of the world’s top science journals asked each other at a meeting in January. They decided that al Qaeda might, in fact, be reading their journals and agreed to censor scientific research that could cause “potential harm” if it fell into the hands of terrorists. Although it appears that the editors were trying to protect the public by blocking sensitive research from being published, their motivations are much less pure. The journals are simply trying...
Open inquiry and the free exchange of information are some of the highest ideals of science. But the new motto of the government and the scientists who want to censor research should be “See no anthrax, breathe no anthrax.” The Internet makes complete censorship impossible. By naively assuming that their journals are the main places where terrorists will get their information, journal editors are doing a great disservice both to science and to the public. Suppressing information does not make it disappear...
Both Vest and Bloom cited the recent decision of 32 prestigious scientific journals’ to self-censor their published material in light of national security concerns as lamentable, but preferable to other practical alternatives...