Word: censorship
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...reasonable compromise, house masters chose a course that creates organizational problems for dozens of student publications and undermines the foundations of a free press--all for the sake of clean hallways. This goal may be a noble one, but it in no way justifies a policy of de facto censorship...
...also called for reforms to the police and the justice system, more liberal laws on associations, gatherings and censorship, a new democratic constitution, the removal of political and ideological barriers to promotion, fully autonomous universities and an end to "catastrophic" environmental pollution...
...great mistakes of liberals in recent decades has been the ceding of moral concern to right-wingers. Just because one opposes censorship, one need not be seen as agreeing with pornographers. Why should liberals, of all people, oppose Gore when she asks that labels be put on products meant for the young, to inform those entrusted by law with the care of the young? Liberals were the first to promote "healthy" television shows like Sesame Street and The Electric Company. In the 1950s and 1960s they were the leading critics of television, of its mindless violence...
...case in point is the Corcoran Gallery's sudden cancellation of an exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs. The whole matter was needlessly confused when the director, Christina Owr-Chall, claimed she was canceling the show to protect it from censorship. She meant that there might be pressure to remove certain pictures -- the sadomasochistic ones or those verging on kiddie porn -- if the show had gone on. But she had in mind, as well, the hope of future grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, which is under criticism for the Mapplethorpe show and for another show that contained...
Tolerance opposes censorship to make for freedom of expression. Censure, the free expression of disapproval, mobilizes social opprobrium...