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...Carolyn Cassidy describes her job—“I’m responsible for managing the network’s interests”—sounds suspiciously like a censor. But she and other crew members insist creative differences were kept to a minimum. “There has not been any content that has been too risqué for the network,” Cassidy says...
...also has the power to makes regulatory decisions--from mergers to ownership rules--worth billions to media companies. That alone can be powerful incentive to self-censor. One proposal by Senator Stevens--and a longtime goal of the PTC's--is to make cable companies offer subscribers a bundle of channels rated according to their content. They could either buy channels separately or choose only a family-friendly "tier" of channels. That would be a boon for viewers who don't want to subsidize MTV's spring-break parties, but media companies claim it would raise prices and drive smaller...
...purely technical reasons, it is impossible to censor the Internet at present. "It's designed to work around censorship and blockage," explains Stoll. "If you try to cut something, it self-repairs." But some antipornography activists have found a clever way to cope with that. From time to time, they will appear in newsgroups devoted to X-rated picture files and start posting messages with titles like "YOU WILL ALL BURN IN HELL!" These typically provoke flurries of angry responses -- until it dawns on the pornography lovers that by filling the message board with their rejoinders, they are pushing...
Most non-Harvard bloggers don’t have to self-censor, but a posting that is a little too racy on these Harvard-sanctioned websites might force the Berkman Center to consider censorship...
...will be on the docket for the March 15 meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), asks Faculty to vote “to register dissent from a series of pronouncements by Mr. Summers that minimize the social causes of social inequality and, at times, appear to censor dissenting views on campus; and...to demand a halt to any expansion of presidential prerogatives that will facilitate the application of these pronouncements to the governance of the University...