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...Osama is reading the scientific literature? That’s the question the editors of some of the world’s top science journals asked each other at a meeting in January. They decided that al Qaeda might, in fact, be reading their journals and agreed to censor scientific research that could cause “potential harm” if it fell into the hands of terrorists. Although it appears that the editors were trying to protect the public by blocking sensitive research from being published, their motivations are much less pure. The journals are simply trying...
Both Vest and Bloom cited the recent decision of 32 prestigious scientific journals’ to self-censor their published material in light of national security concerns as lamentable, but preferable to other practical alternatives...
Fenster’s freedom to write what he pleases isn’t so extraordinary in the view of nonchalant Oxfordians. If the Oxford Student is any indication, the British don’t seem to censor much of anything. The Oxford Student is “a little more tabloid-ish, a little more edgy,” says Fenster. With such telling headlines as “Shit Happens” (over student council elections) and “Surrey to Sell Out” (when Britain’s Surrey University took an initiative to break...
...Hazelwood decision, the majority wrote, “First Amendment rights of students in the public schools are not automatically coextensive with the rights of adults in other settings.” The 1988 ruling gave high school principals the power to censor school papers, effectively eliminating freedom of the press in American public high schools...
...dissent in the Hazelwood decision, Justice William J. Brennan criticized educators who censor, calling them poor teachers and even worse citizens. “Such unthinking contempt for individual rights is intolerable from any state official,” he wrote. “It is particularly insidious from one to whom the public entrusts the task of inculcating in its youth an appreciation for the cherished democratic liberties that our Constitution guarantees...