Word: censorship
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...Self-Censorship Issue: "Where do you draw the line?" ABC's Forrest Sawyer repeatedly asked Madonna on a nationally televised Nightline appearance...
...planning to buckle under to reactionary censorship pressures every time an advertiser complains or a Donald Wildmon-type "family values" organization signs a petition? Or does it hope to encourage artistic expression...
Carrying posters with the slogans "Boycott Oppressors," "Thought Control, Inc.," and "Stop Censorship," the group of about 15 students from various campus conservative organizations protested for an hour before disbanding...
...employee simply refused to aid AALARM in its pursuit of free speech. This is not tantamount to censorship, as AALARM has charged. Individuals, as an issue of conscience, must not oppose the right of others to freedom of speech, but they need not participate in that speech...
This is the first time lawyers recall the court's allowing a "prior restraint" order to block a news organization from publishing or broadcasting news. In almost all earlier cases, the Supreme Court has equated prior restraints with censorship and declared them unconstitutional. "Now we have the government supporting a gag order on material the government gathered," said Jane Kirtley, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. "It's frightening." Warned CNN's counsel Floyd Abrams: "The risk of this decision is that courts will order more brief prior restraints. From a journalism perspective, even...