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DIED. RICHARD J. SINNOTT, 76, city censor; in his sleep at home in Boston. From 1955 until 1982 when his position was cut, Sinnott looked over movies, music, plays and strippers to decide if they should be "banned in Boston." He kept the Jackson Five from performing and forced Edward Albee to remove lines from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at a local theater...
...government studios are also under increasing competitive pressure to hold onto their audience. A government decree announced in January allows private film studios to form for the first time since 1975, and six companies have already applied for permits. The government will still censor the finished films (it also decides which foreign films are allowed to be screened) but won't require preapproved scripts as it does for state-produced films. Already, some of the country's most respected directors are considering the private sector, including Dang Nhat Minh and Vuong Duc, whose soon-to-be-released Lost Treasure explores...
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...
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...