Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First, he states that Arab textbooks and papers used in the West Bank "exhibit virulent militarism and anti-semitism." This is simply not true as all Arab publications must pass through the hands of an Israeli censor...
Censorship is a game that makes for underground, intellectual, guerrilla warfare. It puts thinkers and artists in the position of continually devising a strategy to push the limits of what can be said. But for the other kind of censor--the limit of acceptability inside someone's mind--that "strategy" is just another word for innovation...
...People who attempt to restrict what others are allowed to read do not imagine themselves as enemies of Democracy. I must allow that they pay ideas the backhanded tribute of fearing their power. But the proper antidote to obnoxious or wicked concepts is exposure, not suppression. The urge to censor betrays a disregard for the intelligence of others. To mistrust the judgment of one's fellow citizens is to question, ultimately, their ability to govern themselves...
Administrators promised that a long-needed review of the College's disciplinary system, which was supposed to yield results this spring, will be completed next year. A three-month investigation of the use of CIA funding by a government professor who gave the agency the right to review and censor his work concluded without even determining if University rules applied in the case...
...Moreover, given Professor Herf's phobia of unopen sources, how come he doesn't object to the mere use of classified materials?) Would Professor Herf think it is all right, say, for a scholar to give to the family of a deceased public official or writer the right to censor a biography it has helped fund...