Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Among Rubin's published works are numerous translations, a book about early censorship of literature in Japan and a humorous tract about the quirks of teaching Japanese grammar
...University fails to act decisively, it will have opened the floodgates for a wave of swelling and ever-more violent attempts at "censorship" among student groups. Let the University fulfill its obligation to impartially administer its rules and protect the rights of all student groups, and so avert an inevitable and pernicious collapse from protected free speech into a campus-wide brawl in which vandalism and personal threats are the encouraged modes of expressing disagreement. Tung Le '96 Press Secretary, AALARM Harvard
...selecting Powell as Commencement speaker, the University necessarily rejected other candidates. No one would argue that Harvard is violating those candidates' right to free speech. Nor would it have been an act of censorship if the University had decided not to invite Powell...
Moreover, censorship is long gone. Sex magazines of every ilk clutter the metropoles' numerous newsstands, and there's a new condom shop in Barcelona's Placa Sant Josep Oriol. Whatever one thinks of pornography and contraception, it's probably a positive development that every day Spanish vendors sell products that would have rendered the old man apoplectic. King Juan Carlos' de-Francoization is complete...
When a terrorists gets publicity, "he sees a lot of bang for his buck," he said. The media "ought to exercise self-censorship" to prevent this...