Word: censorship
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...reason that I got involved with the event is that I think very little has been said about censorship in certain totalitarian regimes,” says Ivet A. Bell ’13, who has been working to raise funding and publicity through the Undergraduate Council. Bell recognizes the importance of Unrue’s efforts: “She’s trying to bring students to an event that could perhaps be confined to a literary community, but I hope that it won’t be, and that it will attract the interest of various groups...
...Living Magazine stands as an argument against the countless magazines that are rendered “dead” by the censorship of their governments. Although it may be easy to forget that free speech is in fact a privilege and not a right in many areas of the world today, this stifling reality is something that writers like Mandanipour face as a constant presence. Many have suffered imprisonment in dedicating their lives to fighting for their freedom. In this way, The Living Magazine offers an opportunity for these writers to speak for many of those who cannot...
...It’s a story that talks about the right of speech and when censorship should be put into effect,” she says. “It’s about the responsibility of the artist, knowing the power of art and that it can come true...
Critics of China's censorship regime have often predicted that information will inevitably circumvent efforts to restrict it. But so far China has managed, through a variety of means, to restrict the discussion of topics the government finds objectionable, such as independence drives in the regions of Tibet and Xinjiang and the banned religious movement Falun Gong...
Perhaps the greatest threat China's censorship regime now faces is that it can't seem to stop debate over censorship itself. Since Google declared in January that it planned to stop censoring its Web search results in China, the state of online censorship has come under increasing scrutiny. The Chinese government has sought to portray its conflict with the Internet giant as a commercial dispute and a simple matter of law. But to a significant number of Chinese Web users, the extensive Web restrictions increasingly chafe. So they make use of widely available proxies and virtual private networks...