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...Crimson as saying that the two Quincy students who filed the complaint against the showing of "DeepThroat" were "feminist fascists." The use of such an epithet is inexcusable and wholly without justification. The fact that these women appear to be on the more restrictive side of the censorship issue than Dershowitz makes the epithet no more applicable to them than "male chauvinist anarchist" would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poor Diction | 5/23/1980 | See Source »

...power of the press may be the power to molest...the best response to bad speech is good speech, not censorship, because when you invoke the power of the state to censor--to arrest two of your fellow students--you make it possible for that power to be used against you, and anyone else who wants to make a statement...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Sympathy for the Devil | 5/23/1980 | See Source »

...support the porn industry--they ducked into the constitutional shelter. A student organization is not simply a business it has obligations to the community it serves. In refusing to take seriously the decision to show pornography, film society officers relinquish their claims to our sympathy on grounds of unfair censorship...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: Abdicating Responsibility | 5/21/1980 | See Source »

...broader sense, any legal challenge to "pornography" or any other form of speech or expression must be met head on. Not to do so is to legitimize censorhisp--and censorship, once it has a foothold, can spread to many other areas...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Tobin, | Title: A Threat to Free Speech | 5/21/1980 | See Source »

...freedom of speech and expression, and it is not my purpose to suggest any infringement upon those rights." In a covering letter to Grossman, Christopher reiterated: "I want to assure you that the Government of the United States cannot and will not attempt to exercise any power of censorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Death Drama Stirs a Royal Row | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

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