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...sponsors of a petition that encourages the FCC to take a strong stance against Internet providers that discriminate by content. “Comcast and its spokespersons suggested that its practice of degrading an application’s performance—using technology similar to censorship systems to the Chinese government—somehow constitutes ‘reasonable network management,’” the authors of the petition wrote. “The FCC must act now to resolve this controversy. Specifically, the FCC must act now to clarify that intentionally degrading an application or class...
...Grieveson is an expert on American gangster movies, censorship, and silent films. But despite a distinguished career as a scholar of American films, this semester marks his first time teaching cinema to students in the U.S. Grieveson, current director of the graduate film studies program at University College London, will serve as Visiting Associate Professor in Harvard’s Visual and Environmental Studies department for one semester. He will spend his time at the College acclimating to the United States, continuing work on his latest book, and teaching two film courses—one on government and film...
...Turkey’s government really were threatened by women wearing headscarves in universities, a ban on that act would constitute the worst kind of censorship. A government that quashes opposition to itself is a tyrannical government. A free society must tolerate the speech of those who would destroy it, just as a secular society must allow the expression of religious beliefs opposed...
...removal of the ban is ultimately about tolerance of religious, political, and personal liberty. These are essential human rights, not cultural perks to be sacrificed for expediency. To praise censorship and intolerance in Turkey while decrying it in the western world is to adhere to an unacceptable and unfounded double standard...
...newspaper at Montclair State University forced editors to halt publication as legislators revoked their funding. Though the Student Government Association (SGA) has recently agreed to temporarily resume funding, the fiasco marks a disturbing and troublesome trend in collegiate journalism—namely, that criticism of authority is met with censorship. The debacle began when the newspaper critiqued the student government for holding meetings that were closed to the press—a violation of a state open meetings law, according to a lawyer that that paper retained. Though the editors’ charge that the funding revocation was a response...