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With passage of a new federal telecommunications law effectively banning "indecent" communications on the Internet, the cost of illiberal, left-wing campaigns against pornography and other speech deemed hateful should be clear. Censorship is now regarded as an appropriate response to social problems by centrist and left-of-center politicians, as well as upholders of "family values" on the right. Overwhelming bipartisan support for the indecency ban demonstrates how leftist proposals to regulate speech further a right-wing social agenda...
...purists and some leading conservative feminists fought to suppress "vicious" literature, as well as information about contraception. But a century later, the revival of a feminist anti-porn movement coincided with the election of Ronald Reagan and the rise of conservative Republicanism buoyed by an intolerant religious right. Left-wing protests of pornography and "hate" speech, in general, helped legitimate growing right-wing censorship campaigns. Their targets differed--activists on the right focused on sex and AIDS education, the study of evolution, literature about homosexuality and changing gender roles, while the left focused on speech considered sexist or racist...
...husband's treatment by the media. She seemed especially upset by coverage of Paula Jones' sexual-harassment suit, mentioning that people had no idea how painful it was for her to endure public reports of her husband's alleged infidelity. She railed against the tactics of the right-wing media and think tanks, wondering how they were being financed. A recurring theme was that she couldn't understand why reporters would publish allegations by people of questionable integrity in the face of denials by her and her husband...
...government to pressure Arafat but not to deliver a knockout punch," says Yaron Ezrahi, a senior fellow at the Israeli Democracy Institute. Nor can Peres afford to incite the Palestinian public so much that it turns violently against the accords. Says "Ghazi," a figure in the military wing of Hamas: "The Israelis are laying the ground for a revolution, and we are going to lead...
Last week leaders of Hamas' political wing publicly asked their military cohort to suspend their attacks. The political leaders were apparently worried that Arafat would begin shutting down the many institutions of Hamas--schools, clinics, mosques, charities--that anchor it deeply in the Palestinian community. In a leaflet, the military wing purportedly acceded. Ghazi, however, insists the document was a fraud. "I tell you frankly and clearly, there is no truce," he says. "We will continue...