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...volumes of visitors forced the site to upgrade and repair their network. The site administrator’s message also acknowledged the controversy surrounding the forum, justifying the “explicit, even gruesome, images of wartime violence.” He encouraged remembrance of World War II, when censorship dominated the press, reverence for the First Amendment, and recollection of a Time magazine caption: “Dead men have indeed died in vain if live men refuse to look at them.” Although a disclaimer at the bottom of every NTFU page purports domicile...
...Perhaps most important, the 2000 decree held content providers responsible for information published on their sites. The result: knowing they were being watched, all but the bravest Web users played it safe. "The best censorship is self-censorship, and China relies on solid work by the secret police to make people censor themselves and keep the Internet under control," says Xiao Qiang, director of the China Internet Project at the University of California, Berkeley journalism school...
...Likewise, mainland Internet companies have become virtual appendages of the government censorship apparatus, employing their own human monitors to ensure their sites remain free of banned content. China's leading blog host, Bokee, which just received $10 million in foreign investment, employs 10 full-time inspectors to keep an eye on postings and to delete those that might anger Beijing. "You have to know where the pressure lines are," says a monitor at Xici Hutong, a site where Chinese journalists share ideas. He says he removes pornography, which is illegal in China, as well as personal slander and "political things...
...great success, to see their brand of radical theory seep into the curriculum and influence the next generation of lawyers. Most perniciously, Crits have attempted to remake society through laws, to purge society of all its biases—racial, gender, or otherwise. They try to do this through censorship of all dissenting views, Thomas argues, and the results are disastrous...
...main branch of the New York Public Library was greeted by an army of the night, brandishing a protest signed by 65 of the nearly 800 writers attending the congress. Amid cries of "Read the petition!" the Secretary expressed unexceptionably liberal sentiments favoring diversity and debate and condemning censorship. Shultz added to his speech by declaring in a rather general way his belief that the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act of 1952 should not be used "to deny visas merely because the applicant wants to say that he disapproves of the U.S. or one of its policies...