Word: censorships
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...says. "I saw all of humanity coming online." Then one day our hero experienced some of that humanity, in an AOL chat room, where a lesbian and a Christian Fundamentalist were bashing each other. Cassell ended up disgusted--not by the name calling but by AOL's Victorian censorship policy, which resulted in a chat-room monitor summarily booting the lesbian for uttering the word bitch...
...article in The Harbus describing the incident specifically considered and rejected charges of censorship...
...some of our member newspapers may choose to take part in its discussions. The N.A.A. does not advocate the development of a rating system that would allow any arbitrary body to decide whether a news Website should be rated or labeled. Such a system amounts to a form of censorship, which cannot be supported by the newspaper industry. JOHN F. STURM, President and CEO Newspaper Association of America Vienna...
...Soros began to build his philanthropic empire. One of his first ventures was in his native Hungary, where he supplied the country with photocopiers, an inspired application of technology to fight censorship. As the democracy movement gained momentum throughout Europe, Soros swept in to fund it, at times acting as a one-man central bank for struggling countries. He established philanthropic offices all over Eastern Europe. Nominally centered in New York City under the direction of Aryeh Neier, the former head of Human Rights Watch, Soros' network of foundations in 31 countries employs about 1,300 people. Soros has spent...
...content first took off. That was when Microsoft forced its myriad Websites to adopt a system that analyzes content according to the degree to which it contains sex, nudity, violence or obscene language. The official reason for this was to make the Net a "safe place" without government censorship--which made sense, I guess, given that the Supreme Court had not yet ruled the Communications Decency Act unconstitutional...