Word: censorships
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...March 15, the Mattel toy company and its subsidiary Microsystems Inc., asked a federal court in Massachusetts to prohibit two young men in Sweden and Canada from explaining to the world how their product, the Web-censorship filter Cyberpatrol, works. The Canadian and Swedish programmers took apart the Cyberpatrol program to figure out how it stored the lists of websites that Cyberpatrol blocks. Cyberpatrol distributes that list in encrypted form, scrambled so that no consumers who purchase the product can tell exactly what the censor they have installed is censoring...
...reasons why there are so few minorities in the media in general. What writer would want to risk the wrath of politically correct pundits? What writer would want the task of scripting dialogue that has to be completely inoffensive? Seems to me that the attempted censorship of Mister Chu sports its own message of racial intolerance by restricting certain characteristics from Asians. And hey, Mister Chu isn't even a stereotype. After all, he doesn't even know kung...
...Allyn distorts important cultural and constitutional events, from undermining Broadway's creative period of the '60s and '70s to distorting Supreme Court cases. He claims that Hair, the Broadway show, existed only to test the limits of censorship. He also corrupts important historical events, such as the introduction of the Pill and Roe v. Wade. He never mentions the feminist critique of the Pill, as a pharmaceutical example of male control of the reproductive nature of women, and claims that Roe never knew that she could not have an abortion after the third trimester, a fallacy according to the legal...
...better is this exemplified than with the vivacious, loquacious and sagacious blond bombshell, Ms. Mae West. Long before the most modern set of Hollywood vamps emerged, there was West, who's hip, swinging swagger, sultry double talk and eyelash batting was enough to send Postmaster General Hayes into a censorship tizzy...
...control the effects. Certain zoning laws might allow for more efficient law enforcement and could limit the extent to which the surrounding property is devalued. Instead, as Justice Stevens wrote, "the City of Erie has totally silenced a message the dancers...want to convey. The fact that this censorship may have a laudable ulterior purpose cannot mean that censorship is not censorship...