Word: censorships
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...began Ulysses in 1914; portions of it in progress appeared in the Egoist in England and the Little Review in the U.S., until the Post Office, on grounds of alleged obscenity, confiscated three issues containing Joyce's excerpts and fined the editors $100. The censorship flap only heightened curiosity about Joyce's forthcoming book. Even before Ulysses was published, critics were comparing Joyce's breakthroughs to those of Einstein and Freud...
...term also saw the liberalization of censorship laws and further separation of the Catholic church from the state...
...Habibie's new Cabinet is able to make headway in restoring the economy, his presidency may defy expectations and last its full term, some analysts say. Even so, Indonesia will change in ways that were impossible under Suharto's centralized control. The press has thrown off self-censorship, and the next step could be the legitimization of multiparty politics to accommodate the newfound sense of "people power." John Sidel, a lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, predicts, "You will see a great diversity in government, and all these different groups will be appealing...
...Merriman was denied an opportunity to share this moment with the Harvard community because several House masters denied her request to use Harvard property to complete her project. The failure of the officials involved to accommodate Merriman is a disservice to the community and sets a dangerous precedent of censorship...
...example, Lessig lost a lot of friends in the computer community when he argued against their push to establish a software standard for filtering pornographic images. Such software, he argued, limits the speech of its users without their even knowing it--a result nearly as pernicious as direct government censorship. It was an interesting insight, and many legal scholars were looking forward to hearing what Lessig would have to say about Bill Gates. Now it's up to the appeals court to decide whether they'll get that chance...