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People who use these new entry points into the Net may be in for a shock. Unlike the family-oriented commercial services, which censor messages they find offensive, the Internet imposes no restrictions. Anybody can start a discussion on any topic and say anything. There have been sporadic attempts by local network managers to crack down on the raunchier discussion groups, but as Internet pioneer John Gilmore puts it, "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around...
...Hazelwood, the Court ruled that public school officials have broad authority to censor newspapers and other "school-sponsored expressive activities" as long as "their actions are reasonably related to pedagogical concerns," they said...
...position is not to take a position," she says. "I sell books, and allow people to have their say." Yet she admits that some of Stern's material bothered her, especially his verbal assaults on her other clients, like Limbaugh and Gifford: "It is not my job to censor Howard Stern, although I have to say it was very painful to sit there and deal with the fact that he had some nasty things to say about some of my friends...
Dove wants to re-create for the young her own awestruck discovery of poetry's power, which began when she took down an anthology of American verse from the bookshelf in her family's home in Akron. After that, her otherwise strict parents made no attempt to censor what she read, and she read everything from Gone With the Wind to Sylvia Plath. "I remember reading ((Plath's)) poem Daddy, which ends, 'Daddy, Daddy, you bastard, I'm through,' " says Dove. "I realized that you don't have to be polite in poetry, and I couldn't get enough...
...Yeah, we have the same situation in Hong Kong. The censor board knows me very well. They know me and they respect me and usually they'll accept my explanation. They realize my kind of action or violence in my movies they know I did it in artistic way. Usually they'll give me some specific suggestion or point...