Word: censorships
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...serious roadblocks are being set up against our critical judgment. We are being prevented by the military, by the Bush administration, by the network executives and even by the self-censorship of our supposedly relentless journalists from fulfilling our democratic duty—arguably the most important duty of the patriotic citizen in this time of crisis...
...Throughout the album, there is a clear and unequivocal antipathy expressed—almost always in highly confrontational and profane terms—to various sorts of authority and repression. In “Censorshit” the band complains about—you guessed it-censorship: “Everyone has heard the bullshit lines / You hear all the rest of the fucking lies / And they keep on covering it up / All the time / But wait, what’s this? / What exactly is happening to us? / Our world? / Don’t you think it?...
...warning?) came during a meeting earlier this week between Secretary of State Colin Powell and the Emir of Qatar, who is also Al-Jazeera's founder and primary benefactor. As is so often the case when First Amendment expectations collide with wartime diplomacy, the parameters of "acceptable censorship" seem to depend entirely upon personal perception. In this case, anyway, Powell's entreaty does not appear to have crossed any serious lines of protocol...
Many websites engaged in temporary self-censorship...
...Sudan, musicians cannot perform after dark; in a Nigerian state where Islamic law is followed, a musician was recently imprisoned for singing. "In much of the Third World, people cannot read or write," says Marie Korpe, executive director of Freemuse, a group in Denmark that monitors music censorship. "People listen to the radio, to songs. It is music that reaches people's hearts and souls." When music is muzzled, an outlet for self-expression is lost...