Word: censoring
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...You’re asking us to suppress or censor information that would be in the public interest,” the associate justice said...
...other sections of the Guide to the ‘Speakers’ section, reminding students of their need to respect the Jesuit Catholic values of Boston College when inviting speakers to campus,” said Dunn. “The deans’ intention was not to censor or cancel events...
Free-speech advocates once dreamed that the Internet might make it impossible for repressive governments to control information and stifle dissent. But while the Internet has given dissidents more ways to communicate with some privacy, authoritarian regimes have still found ways to censor websites, to monitor e-mail and to track down and jail online offenders. Still, in this game of electronic cat and mouse, the methods for evading roadblocks are evolving, and in Vietnam pro-democracy activists have hit upon a useful tool: Internet telephony, or Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP...
...anxious to play down the controversy. However, experts praise the company for taking a more principled stance than some of its rivals have. According to a Human Rights Watch report issued last month, Yahoo voluntarily handed over incriminating info that led to the arrest of four Chinese dissidents; Microsoft censored searches and deleted blogs in China; and Skype configured its Chinese software to censor certain words in its chat function...
...Moghadam agreed to make several edits to Maxx - the government found 140 "questionable" points in his 80-page screenplay - before it hit Iranian screens. Other directors alternate their unseen social projects with blockbuster family films that keep their names circulating back at home. But Panahi refuses either to self-censor or to sell out. Instead, he's on a one-man mission to project his country's social ills onto the big screen. "Every three years I make one film which I think is necessary and important," he says. "If I didn't make these kinds of films...