Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dole says he's not interested in government censorship, which in any event hasn't worked very well in the past. In the best tradition of Patrick Henry, Americans generally don't have much patience with government interference in First Amendment rights of expression, even when they may not much like what's being expressed. In the most highly publicized attempt in recent years to set the law on pop music, three members of 2 Live Crew were arrested in Florida in 1990 after a live performance. It took a local jury just two hours to acquit them on obscenity...
...trying it. Dennis Walcott, president of the New York Urban League, organized a protest last week at radio station wqht in New York to persuade the station to stop playing Shimmy Shimmy Ya, a rap song that the protesters say encourages sex without condoms. "I'm not asking for censorship,'' says Walcott. "I'm asking for corporations who make money from these things to think about content and message...
...this? Because the Third Reich proved beyond all reasonable doubt what the constant pumping of hate-filled images and inflammatory statements can do to a culture. I do not believe censorship is the answer. But I have no doubt good taste and responsibility will not limit the entertainment industry's ability to provide mature work that attacks our corruption, challenges our paranoia and pulls the covers off the shortcomings that Balkanize us. What we need is simply the same sense of responsibility and dire consequences that we bring to the issue of anti-Semitism...
...knowledge, there had never been a poem like that in the magazine, that dealt so explicitly with what was then considered a gay experience. That was an extraordinary fact. Now, with Tina Brown, the lid is very much off and there's no measure of censorship...
Many of the world's governments have enshrined press freedom in their constitutions but feel free to ignore it. A charter drawn up by the World Press Freedom Committee condemns censorship in all its forms, including economic restrictions, and proclaims freedom of expression as an essential human right. But government resistance to the charter's principles is tenacious. There is the argument from patriotism: nations, especially when in crisis, cannot tolerate destructive criticism. There is the argument from culture: chaotic Western concepts of freedom cannot be applied to societies based on order and stability. There is the argument from economics...