Word: censorship
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...Censorship in Poland is "arbitrary," he said, citing occasions when the Polish government had allowed to be published material that probably helped bring about the recent political upheavals there. The government allows some work to be published unofficially "to maintain its facade of independence," Jolanta Bak, a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature who did undergraduate work in Warsaw, said. Bak was a member of Baranczak's Committee for Social Self-Defense...
...Congress cannot let the President get away with the censorship of entire disciplines," the source said, adding that "the disproportionate nature of the cuts toward several areas shows the administration's latent hostility toward the academic community...
...artistic flowering in France--many theaters flourished, and Les Enfants du Paradis was being filmed. Camus and the like were writing for the newspapers and carrying on the Resistance. There was an intellectual and social defiance which the Nazis could never conquer, and it continued despite the imposition of censorship and curfew--even though if one missed the last metro, the veneer of normal life would vanish and one could be arrested at random on the street...
Rubenstein describes two Russias: one of violence and deceit and one of justice and humanity. Andrei Amalrik, dissident and author of "Involuntary Journey to Siberia" writes, "I don't think Americans can understand that censorship is ingrained in Soviet life. Do you know that you can go to prison for writing something about the 10th century that is considered unpatriotic and anti-state in the 20th century?" Joshua Rubenstein understands and he makes this clear...
...court for a preliminary injunction against the FEC investigation. Argued the Digest: "The fact of being investigated by the United States Government for alleged violation of a statute carrying criminal penalties has a chilling effect all by itself." Such investigations, it added, "can be a very effective form of censorship...