Word: censorships
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Pity Prodigy. An information network linking computers across the nation, Prodigy prides itself on being user-friendly, but it is becoming known for user-enemies, who accuse it of unjust rate hikes and censorship. Now comes the gravest charge yet: that Prodigy peeks into customers' private files...
...unfolding: a crowd of gay activists carried signs, shouted slogans and continued their efforts to disrupt the action. The number of arrests mounted last week as they violated a temporary restraining order to stay 100 ft. away. In what moviemakers see as a dangerous form of politically correct censorship, the protesters are demanding that the script be changed because it depicts lesbians as murderers and contains a scene in which they claim a woman is date-raped...
Unlike most of his colleagues at the Nieman Foundation, Vessenski, a leading Soviet journalist, has for much of his career had to contend with tight official censorship procedures designed to weed out unflattering remarks about his country. The Soviet press has always been permitted a certain amount of criticism, he says, but only of individual officials and particular incidents--and, until very recently, never of the entire system...
After years of being an administrator in the Soviet government, Vessenski started his career in journalism as a special correspondent in South America for Komsommorsky Pravda, the newspaper of the Soviet youth organization. Vessenski says Soviet officials were surprisingly liberal in letting his reports through without much censorship...
...those who fund them. If these disagree, no business will be transacted, but no one is attempting to suppress the other. There is a world of difference between refusing to buy a book and burning it. The sooner the artists realize this, the sooner they will drop these unjustifiable censorship lawsuits that make a mockery of all sincere struggles for artistic and moral freedom...