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...China. Farewell My Concubine, Zhang's To Live, Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Blue Kite, Gu Rong's Unwelcome Lady and Jiang Wen's In the Heat of the Sun have boldly dramatized the fratricidal madness of the Cultural Revolution. The directors have paid for their bravery, finding their work censored or themselves unemployed. Gu submitted his film eight harrowing times before it was approved. Jiang tried distracting the on-the-set censor by casting him in Heat of the Sun. But he still had to fight for over a year before his film was approved, with cuts. It opens...
...Chinese censor knows these pictures are salable products elsewhere, so even if he bans them at home he allows them to be shown in festivals and commercially abroad. This is the new dictum in China: dissident citizens are exiled; dissident films are exported. Says Chen, whose Concubine was shown cut at home and whose 1991 Life on a String has yet to be released there: "I am a Chinese director who finds himself making films for the international market...
...SHARE DEEP CONCERNS ABOUT children's access to obscenity and other harmful materials on the Internet. In the rush to protect children [Cover Story, July 3], however, we need not unnecessarily chill online speech between consenting adults or set up a government agency as censor of the speech carried over computer networks. I have sponsored an alternative legislative approach to study ways to empower parents, not the government, to decide what is appropriate for their children to access on the Internet. Rather than stifling the continued development of the Internet with censorship, we should encourage the marketplace to develop services...
SURELY NO ONE CAN WHOLLY CONDONE the excesses of pornography on computer networks described in your article. I applaud none of it, yet does anyone-legislator, watchdog, censor or myself-have the right to remove this material from the Internet? The decision by an adult to view cyberporn rests with the individual alone, and it does not matter by which medium the pornography is conveyed. Access to the net should be open. HERB MAYNARD Napier, New Zealand...
...where to look. And for every bulletin-board service that carries pornography, there are at least 10 that do not, just as with magazines or movies. My friends and I have access to such material, and we don't look at it. The U.S. government has no right to censor the Internet or computer bulletin boards. ALAN TOMS Miami Via America Online...