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...politics and the “bigger” questions, “Confessions” steers clear from anything controversial, a big change for the Queen of Pop. On the track “I Love New York,” in a rare display of self-censorship, she tells Big Apple naysayers to “f-off,” a far cry from her “Erotica” days. The album’s “future disco” sound is devoid of any meaning. In fact, the album makes a point...
...even economists, who might dismiss regulation for unfairly forcing the costs of US social norms upon a particular company, would probably think this inoffensive, if likely ineffective.We can also call upon watchdog organizations like OpenNet, or the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) or Human Rights Watch to research internet censorship and ultimately to take strong positions on it and call for its end. Still, China’s prominent political position makes intervention a tricky matter. Some of these organizations have thus put effort into researching technological methods by which people in China can get around the firewalls safely. Whether...
Just as dangerous as students’ self-censorship is the direct censorship of the Harvard administration itself. Administrators have gone to great lengths to regulate political activity on campus and have shown their readiness to undercut students’ free speech rights when they aren’t big fans of the content of that speech...
...Indeed, censorship remains pervasive. After the school's musicians put on a stirring performance, belting out rousing odes to school and country backed by electric guitars, Rhee Jin Hyuk, a spiky haired drummer, mentions that he owns an MP3 player. But he claims not to have heard of rap music, or even the Beatles. The only tunes he plays are North Korea's version of pop, a chirpy, heavily synthesized sort of muzak that sounds like it was composed in the 1950s. "I want to be a musician in a military propaganda unit," he tells us. Choe, our minder, says...
...rebellions in Ireland. These unsettling events seem to parallel the themes of “Henry the Fifth” and “Julius Caesar”—and they appear to have sparked Shakespeare’s creativity. However, due to the strict enforcement of censorship in Elizabethan England, Shakespeare could not make overt comparisons to the government. After all, the English court was a patron of his theater company. At the time, authors were sent to the gallows at Tyburn or starved to death in the Tower of London just for subtly criticizing the Queen...