Word: censorable
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...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...
...Google Under the Gun" [Feb. 13] Reported that the Web giant launched a Chinese version that is censored to comply with 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...
...that freedom of speech is not in danger on this campus. After the student newspaper at Governors State University (GSU) criticized the school’s administration, the dean said the paper had to be approved before publication, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Harvard administrators do not censor student publications, even when administrators are concerned about their content, Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd said yesterday. “There are always one or two high-profile cases every year dealing with freedom of the press or freedom of speech in higher education...
...taste of portraying Muhammad with a bomb on his head, people have found a reassuring port in the storm: their belief in the political miracle of free speech. In Western democracies, the right to express an idea, no matter how offensive, always trumps the impulse of the offended to censor. No government should be able to jail a cartoonist or newspaper editor for what they publish, or block the distribution of provocative material in advance. That's what Europeans believe, and their laws allow. Right? Well, actually, no. In general, European law favors the right to say and publish unpopular...
...that Ramadan, the grandson of the founder of the Egyptian opposition group Muslim Brotherhood, has been unfairly banned from visiting the country on the basis of a Patriot Act statute meant to deny entry to those who endorse terrorism. “The government is using this law to censor and manipulate political debate,” said Eck, the Wertham professor of law and psychiatry in society. Eck said that she was shocked when she learned that Ramadan, a Swiss citizen and currently a visiting professor at Oxford University, had been denied entry to the United States...