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...policy requiring an obscenity code represents a violation of free-speech protections and would likely incur an expensive lawsuit. The Jefferson Center concluded that, had the University of Maryland adopted the policy, it would have been alone among the nation’s colleges in banning public viewing of porn on campus. The move, moreover, would likely have drawn a costly and drawn-out court case. Civil-liberty disputes are often watched carefully by individuals and groups who are not directly affected by the policy in question. This makes it likely that, even had a low-level court found...
Green Technology In an Oct. 23 speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Obama said the country that wins the race to develop renewable forms of energy "will be the nation that leads the global economy." That's something China's leadership heartily agrees with. China has become the world's leading producer of greenhouse gases, and many of its big cities choke on smog from cars and coal-fired power plants. But it is also a global pioneer in renewable energy. The government has mandated that by next year 3% of its power must come from renewable sources, excluding...
...group included well-known free-speech advocates, as well as Rao Jin, the founder of the nationalist website Anti-CNN.com, which is critical of Western media coverage. The meeting quickly made the rounds online, with several commenters complimenting the U.S. diplomats for their openness. "The American officials showed tolerance, politeness and a democratic style because they were open to any question, even questions that are very controversial," Zhao Jing, a popular blogger who attended the meeting and writes under the pen name Michael Anti, told TIME. (See pictures of Obama visiting Asia...
There is a long history of Chinese officials censoring the comments of U.S. presidents. In 1984 when President Ronald Reagan gave a speech in Beijing, state-run China Central Television cut portions that referred to the Soviet Union, religion and democracy. During Obama's inaugural speech in January, China's state television cut away when the president referred to previous American generations that had faced down communism. The line that followed was also edited from television broadcasts and from transcripts on many Chinese news portals: "To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent...
...Humphreys described Rudd's speech on Monday as exceptional. "The word sorry doesn't mean much. You can't say sorry for a lost childhood," he says. "But you can acknowledge it, and that's what I needed...