Word: censorable
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...undress. He then tells her to face the wall and chants racial epithets as he sodomizes her. During the scene Solondz covers the two characters with a red box, pre-empting an NC-17 rating, as if to say to the MPAA, I won’t let you censor me, I’d rather censor myself. Vi then writes a short story based on her night with Scott and reads it in class. The students respond by calling the story racist, misogynistic, exploitative and disturbing. Criticism which sounds unsurprisingly reminiscent of the charges leveled against Happiness...
...Coulter’s piece created such an uproar that NRO refused to publish her follow-up column, in which she suggested that airport security should single out any “suspicious-looking swarthy males.” When she publicly complained that NRO was trying to censor her, she was fired from the magazine...
...esteem for the right of people to unbiased information. The respect for civil rights and liberties (freedom of information among them) is a hallmark of our society as opposed to fundamentalist societies, intensely engaged in indoctrination and coercion of their people. We should not necessarily ask these governments to censor bin Laden’s messages, but instead, we should ask them to uphold free speech, so that truth can win out among the people in a fair...
When national security is at stake, American newspapers and networks take it upon themselves to tread more carefully on controversial issues - a right, rather than a requirement, of democracy. But while few would argue with our right to censor ourselves, our First Amendment alarm bells might start jangling if the government actually tried to set parameters for news coverage. Thus the curious questions raised when the U.S. government, in the interests of national security, is perceived to be reaching across borders and to rein in media coverage in foreign countries...
Conversely again, China's tenuous protest-music movement has focused on Western-influenced rock, which the government first banned (as a bourgeois and immoral influence), then in the late '80s grudgingly opened up to (as a talisman of capitalism), with heavy censor oversight. Just as China has spent the past decade trying to prove that communist capitalism is no contradiction in terms, so is it trying to show that defanged rock music can be the totalitarian capitalist's pal. (Take the danger out of rock and what do you have, if not a Britney Spears Pepsi commercial?) Arguably...