Word: censor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...esteem for the right of people to unbiased information. The respect for civil rights and liberties (freedom of information among them) is a hallmark of our society as opposed to fundamentalist societies, intensely engaged in indoctrination and coercion of their people. We should not necessarily ask these governments to censor bin Laden’s messages, but instead, we should ask them to uphold free speech, so that truth can win out among the people in a fair...
When national security is at stake, American newspapers and networks take it upon themselves to tread more carefully on controversial issues - a right, rather than a requirement, of democracy. But while few would argue with our right to censor ourselves, our First Amendment alarm bells might start jangling if the government actually tried to set parameters for news coverage. Thus the curious questions raised when the U.S. government, in the interests of national security, is perceived to be reaching across borders and to rein in media coverage in foreign countries...
Conversely again, China's tenuous protest-music movement has focused on Western-influenced rock, which the government first banned (as a bourgeois and immoral influence), then in the late '80s grudgingly opened up to (as a talisman of capitalism), with heavy censor oversight. Just as China has spent the past decade trying to prove that communist capitalism is no contradiction in terms, so is it trying to show that defanged rock music can be the totalitarian capitalist's pal. (Take the danger out of rock and what do you have, if not a Britney Spears Pepsi commercial?) Arguably...
According to two articles written by the Post this summer, as a result of this critical story and a similar story which later appeared in a Chinese news magazine, Xu sent two letters to Chinese government officials urging them to ban or censor further reporting about genetic research in China...
...foreign broadcasters might play along, and possibly even self-censor their programs, to keep the Chinese monopoly happy. Far less clear is whether Beijing has the power to control the 1,200 municipal cable operators scattered across the country or to crack down on those who pirate encrypted signals. "I don't think it really changes the present situation for receiving unauthorized programming," says William Wade, an executive at Hong Kong-based satellite operator Asiasat. For one thing, the satellite programs now being received in homes are relatively uncensored and subscriptions for illegal cable service are dirt cheap?the government...