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This fall, he co-authored a report on Google’s censorship in France and Germany with Assistant Professor of Law Jonathan Zittrain, whom he met at the Berkman Center...
...during World War II, which appeared in the Sept. 20, 1943, issue of LIFE magazine--was intended to incite anger and awareness. It came after Franklin D. Roosevelt decided that the home front had become too complacent, too distanced from the realities of combat, and so he lifted the censorship of American casualties. But the editors of LIFE still felt a need to explain their decision: "Why print this picture? ... The reason is that words are never enough ... the words do not exist to make us see, or know, or feel what it is like, what actually happens...
...during World War II, which appeared in the Sept. 20, 1943, issue of LIFE magazine - was intended to incite anger and awareness. It came after Franklin D. Roosevelt decided that the home front had become too complacent, too distanced from the realities of combat, and so he lifted the censorship of American casualties. But the editors of LIFE still felt a need to explain their decision: "Why print this picture? ... The reason is that words are never enough ... the words do not exist to make us see, or know, or feel what it is like, what actually happens...
...partly shot in Angkor Wat, mistakenly showed people wearing Vietnamese hats, not Cambodian ones?an unwelcome reminder of Cambodia's historic enemies. But besides trimming a few ultra-violent scenes, Dillon was required to do little more than translate the script for curious officials. "I was afraid of censorship, but they seemed more concerned that the movie was truthful," says Dillon, "even if it didn't say the most flattering things about the country...
...Despite limited censorship, producers know where the red lines are. Segments begin with violin-backed montages of injured Iraqi children followed by the words "Give Peace a Chance." Iraqi claims that the U.S. is dropping cluster bombs on civilian targets are repeated without skepticism, and there has been no mention of Saddam's past use of chemical weapons or his invasions into Iran and Kuwait. And the government has banned coverage of an even bigger story for China-the spread of a deadly new disease, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Reporters are setting the bar higher, but some news is still...