Word: censorships
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...such, Clinton's words constitute both a valuable defense of free speech and a powerful reminder that speech is a freedom that should be exercised responsibly. Had Clinton added his weight to the Reno-Simon censorship chorus, he would have contributed presidential momentum to a dangerous movement to curtail First Amendment freedoms instead of asking Americans to take responsibility for what they and their children view...
...their children about the shows they watch. John Murray, a professor at Kansas State University, said in a New York Times article last year that "sitting down with your kids [to watch television] is a good idea...it should be a combination of actively watching television with kids and censorship...
...censor messages they find offensive, the Internet imposes no restrictions. Anybody can start a discussion on any topic and say anything. There have been sporadic attempts by local network managers to crack down on the raunchier discussion groups, but as Internet pioneer John Gilmore puts it, "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around...
...special rights" blocked his way to class and shouted epithets. At neither Penn nor Duke were the perpetrators disciplined. During the academic year that ended in June, there were 12 major incidents of U.S. campus papers stolen or destroyed because their contents transgressed political correctness. This form of censorship hits most at "alternative" newspapers -- a term that in the '60s and early '70s automatically denoted a leftist competitor to the main campus organ, but that today means one leaning to the right. More than 100 such papers challenge what they see as liberal orthodoxy. The climate of political correctness...
...author of the student free expression law, former legislator Nicholas Paleologos, led one of four discussion sessions held after opening remarks. The workshops dealt with censorship, the student press and alternative publications...