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...VIEWS. IT'S NOT so simple as freedom here, authoritarianism there. Every kind of communication or information can be used in a manipulative way, but at least in most cases you know who is calling the tune. What troubles me about the Internet is not the existence of sexually explicit newsgroups, but that our brave new social space shields the vicious from having to stand up for what they are saying and be held responsible for it. CLAUDIUS KLEIN Berlin I AM AGAINST CENSORSHIP, BUT THERE has to be regulation to protect the weaker elements of our society. Placing freedom...
Rushdie's more explicit answer to the Ayatollah can be found in his children's story Haroun and the Sea of Stories, published soon after The Satanic Verses. In this story, a renowned and persecuted story-teller is given two opposing nicknames: some call him the Ocean of Notions, others the Shah of Blah. The same dichotomy can be seen in Rushdie. His political significance has less to do with his writing than it does with his continued existence, the living hero of a sometimes abstract cause. We read Rushdie, though, because in his work larger forces--the forces...
...plot and acting were not emotionally explicit enough, the dewy score is always there to tell you what to feel. The film is symptomatic of a Hollywood that has forgotten subtlety. The comedies are gross, the thrillers sadistic, the dramas moral tales for preschoolers. At least Mr. Holland gives you some good music (Gershwin, Ray Charles, three Beethoven symphonies) to hum along with while you cry. It's a greatest-hits album, with Kleenex...
Bradley called for a constitutional amendment allowing states and the U.S. Congress "explicit authority to limit spending in campaigns and contributions from any sources...
...this merely by telling CompuServe, the world's second largest online-service provider, that it was breaking Bavarian law by giving Germans access to Usenet discussion groups believed to include explicit sexuality. A strangely terrified CompuServe responded by removing any newsgroups whose title contained the word sex, gay or erotic, thus blocking access to all subscribers, not just those in Germany. Given the centralized nature of its operations--and the decentralized nature of Usenet--this was, according to CompuServe, the only way it could comply...