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...anxious to play down the controversy. However, experts praise the company for taking a more principled stance than some of its rivals have. According to a Human Rights Watch report issued last month, Yahoo voluntarily handed over incriminating info that led to the arrest of four Chinese dissidents; Microsoft censored searches and deleted blogs in China; and Skype configured its Chinese software to censor certain words in its chat function...
...Moghadam agreed to make several edits to Maxx - the government found 140 "questionable" points in his 80-page screenplay - before it hit Iranian screens. Other directors alternate their unseen social projects with blockbuster family films that keep their names circulating back at home. But Panahi refuses either to self-censor or to sell out. Instead, he's on a one-man mission to project his country's social ills onto the big screen. "Every three years I make one film which I think is necessary and important," he says. "If I didn't make these kinds of films...
Science should not have felt compelled to censor Lawrence’s article, for which there is overwhelming biological, evolutionary, and genetic evidence. When it comes to cutting-edge scientific theories, do not fault the messengers—only the suffocating cult of political correctness that is tainting the objectivity of science with foul political agendas...
...Vegas during the “tailhook episode,” while turning about and defending President Clinton’s actions during the Lewinsky scandal. As a former law student (though not at Harvard), it strikes me as ludicrous that law professors feel a need to censor the recruitment process for graduating 3Ls, who are at least 24 years old. In a time when universities refuse to be paternalistic about students’ sexual behavior or alcohol abuse, the idea that, after three years of learning at the feet of these professors, Harvard’s law graduates aren?...
...China's Caged Birds "Google under the Gun" [Feb. 13] reported that the Web giant launched a Chinese version, Google.cn, that is censored to comply with Chinese government regulations. Your story suggested that the Chinese aren't aware of what they don't have access to. But the people of China are like birds that know they are caged and realize they may never get a chance to fly free. Google's willingness to censor Internet searches should not be seen as just "a little ethical dustup." China's citizens want change, but the Chinese government controls society by controlling...