Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...provided humorous commentary to accompany President Bush's State of the Union address last January. Its more ambitious convention coverage, it hopes, will woo even more viewers to the channel. The motive of the record-industry executives who started Rock the Vote two years ago was to ward off censorship in the music business. They believed that their best defense against restrictive legislation would be to mobilize a constituency of voters among young music fans. Hence the organization set up voter-registration tables at rock concerts. (Twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia allow mail-in registration.) Last summer...
...comparison of Fujimori's recent military takeover to the "smoking of a joint but not inhaling" is offensive. Isa the imprisonment of political leaders, the censorship of the press and the loss of liberty and rights something to jest about...
Some of the students and faculty at Harvard are enraged by an irreverent parody of a deceased faculty member, and they want vengeance. The weapons they have chosen are censorship and ostracism..."burn the books and excommunicate the blasphemous rogues from the ever-so-pure and perfect society of Harvard...
...civil rights groups said the bill is a justification for censorship. "It's not a civil rights bill. It's a censorship bill," said Karen Hudner, lobbyist for the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts...
...bill has caused divisions among feminists and women politicians, Hudner said. "It's sort of a Pied Piper of older women pushing younger women into believing that censorship is acceptable in a free society," she said...