Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been a suspenseful spring in cyberspace. Everyone has felt it, from the folks who gather for online chats at Bianca's Smut Shack to the Netizens who post daily dispatches to the "fight censorship" E-mail list. The whole information revolution was jeopardized, the cybernauts believed, by a primly named federal statute called the Communications Decency Act. Signed into law by President Clinton on Feb. 8, after being passed by an admittedly Net-illiterate Congress, the CDA was supposed to squelch online pornography and make the Net safe for children by banning "indecent" content. But the legislation was so vague...
...Warner Bros. in a civil suit filed before Grisham's statements. But other experts feel confident that Stone's First Amendment rights will prevail. Besides, says Vincent Blasi, a professor at Columbia Law School, "this idea of legal liability could come back to haunt authors like John Grisham. Censorship, like revolution, often devours its own children...
...didn't even have a news division until 1992. The first man named to run it was Stephen Chao, who had helped develop Cops and America's Most Wanted; he was fired after three months when he hired a male stripper to help illustrate his talk on censorship at a conference organized by Murdoch. A number of top executives--among them ex-CBS News president Van Gordon Sauter and longtime CBS News executive Joseph Peyronnin--came and went after that, and plans changed just as often. An evening newscast was being considered, then it wasn't. A prime-time magazine...
...moral taint of collaboration. Rubinstein's thesis is a reasonable and, for the most part, well-supported one: namely, that Ehrenburg used his public image as "a harsh spokesman for Soviet interests" as "a cover to pursue his ultimate goal: to challenge the limits of Soviet censorship, revive Russia's connection to European culture, and restore to living memory the names and works of those whom Stalin first killed and then erased from history...
...more lenient Khrushchev period. As Rubinstein documents, Ehrenburg used his position as the Soviet writer best known to the Western intelligentsia in order to blackmail the censors: he would repeatedly announce the publication of a controversial book or article, then protest that its failure to appear due to censorship would reflect badly on the Soviet regime in the West...