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We’ve gone from shielding children’s eyes from the awfulness of Jerry Springer during its prime in the late 1990s to a campaign against violent video games to the famed censorship crusade of former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Michael Powell in the aftermath of Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl “incident” three years ago to decrying “Heroes,” “Lost,” and “Prison Break...
...duty to shape language and culture belongs to citizens, not government. Censorship will never be an acceptable form of governance; we find it no less repugnant in this case simply because the New York City Council’s action was a resolution and not binding law. Freedom of speech does not only apply to righteous citizens or noble speech for good reason—if we ban one offensive word, what’s to stop a wholesale inquest into our entire language...
...Five years of progress under Thaksin has been ruined by five months of the junta's incompetence. This fact alone engraves Thaksin permanently in millions of Thai hearts, regardless of censorship and the prejudices of the local media. Varodom Toochinda Bangkok...
...restrict or ban material from young eyes, but overall, today’s children have access to a range of sophisticated literature that would have seemed astonishing just a few decades ago. This is to the credit of children’s librarians, who routinely and effectively fight censorship...
...There isn't a festival of documentaries in Mexico. This gives everyone in different cities the opportunity to see, for half price, films from all over the world. There's an official selection, a section about censorship and an experimental-documentary section. We also have a section dedicated to Witness, an organization that provides equipment for documentaries that denounce human-rights abuses...