Word: censor
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Dershowitz said that many people find Buckley's stands offensive and would want to censor him, adding that he sometimes wanted to censor anti-Semitic publications--"Everybody wants to censor somebody; that's why we can have no censorship...
...Hemingway memoir that Hotchner was a "toady," a "hypocrite" and an "exploiter" of Hemingway's friendship. But because Hotchner and his lawyers failed to prove "reckless disregard for the truth" on the part of Doubleday, Judge Lumbard reversed the pro-Hotchner decision. Publishers, the judge continued, cannot self-censor every opinion expressed in their books; if they did, free speech would vanish. Hotchner, in Paris to write another book, greeted the news of the court's decision with a stoic composure under adversity that Hemingway would have admired: "You win some, you lose some...
Censorship founders first of all on a rock that Poet John Milton charted 300 years ago in his great anticensorship treatise, Areopagitica: If there were a censorship law, whom could one possibly trust to act as the censor? As Loory's Sun-Times editorialized, "Who would administer a law like that? A national news censor? Do you really want someone to shut off your news...
...Senator from Tarapaca and Antofagasta, two Chilean provinces populated by workers in the copper and nitrate mines, and wrote perhaps his most famous collection of poems, The Heights of Macchu Picchu. His decision to become a Communist caused him continual harassment; newspapers often would ignore his letters and censor his statements. He was briefly imprisoned in Argentina with no explanation given. Anti-Communist priests persecuted his poor friends and, finally, the Chilean courts ordered his arrest for criticizing the government, forcing him into exile for three years...
...imposes a nation-wide policy of apartheid, the racial segregation of South Africa's four million whites, 18 million blacks and 2.3 million coloureds (people of mixed racial ancestry)--can arbitrarily determine when The Mail has stepped out of bounds, and in some areas can demand a blanket right censor...