Word: censorable
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...many years the major objections to pornography have come from conservative groups which call for a repression of all sexuality. Advocates of personal sexual freedom, not wanting to censor erotica, could not censor pornography. They feared creating a tool which would be inevitably used against other progressive groups. For example, pornography statutes are quickly extended to nonviolent gay and lesbian publications...
...tool of censorship is not useful for women's groups in a male-dominated legal system. As Pam McAllister, a member of Women Against Pornography, said, "I know damn well the boys aren't going to censor themselves; they'll censor us instead...
...hold you accountable for your cruelty, your malevolence and your viciousness." The Lums also claimed that Sheraton had only visited their restaurant once, not several times, as she had reported, and called her verdict "venal." Both assertions were ordered deleted by the Times's "continuity director"-i.e., advertising censor-and the Lums complied. As for holding the paper and its critic accountable, the Lums talked of filing a $2 million libel suit...
...cameras. Terrified, the Afghan policemen fled. But the reprieve was short-lived. By 8 the next morning, armed Afghan police sealed off the hotel and placed the 20 or so Americans there under house arrest until they could be deported. Said Gul Ahmed Faried, Afghanistan's chief press censor and a journalism graduate of Columbia University: "U.S. journalism is bourgeois journalism. You don't write for the benefit of the masses...
...improperly employed, they can censor what we need to know, and intrude into our personal lives...