Censorship stories:
Obama backs non-censorship, Beijing, apparently, does not
Nov 16th, 2009 - Washington Post
BEIJING -- President Obama, taking questions Monday from government-selected students at a town hall-style meeting in Shanghai, called himself "a big supporter of non-censorship." But the Beijing government...
Tigres del Norte nix Mexico show, cite censorship
Oct 29th, 2009 - Boston
MEXICO CITY—The Mexican "norteno" band Los Tigres del Norte says it has canceled a planned appearance at an awards ceremony after organizers allegedly asked it not to play the biting political commentary song "La Granja.
Fraud allegations at UNESCO race
Sep 22nd, 2009 - Washington Post
PARIS -- The U.N.'s cultural agency braced for an unusually suspenseful final round of voting to select its new chief - a race so tight it may come down to a random drawing between a controversial Egyptian and his low-profile Bulgarian rival.
Apple's 'Hottest Girls' Flip-Flop Is iPhone App Deja Vu
Jun 29th, 2009 - ChannnelWeb
Apple's on-again-off-again relationship with the "Hottest Girls" application has people more hot under the collar than the racy photos of topless women that got the software banned from the iTunes App Store last week.
US objects to China's net filter
Jun 25th, 2009 - BBC NEWS
Ron Kirk has now objected to several aspects of Chinese trade policy The US has called on China to scrap its plan to put net-filtering software on all its computers. It said that China's proposals would violate its free trade obligations...
Censorship videos from YouTube:
1:32Unnecessary Censorship "Come and Play Edition" Jimmy Kimmel Live 6-27-08
Unnecessary Censorship #170 "Come and Play Edition" Jimmy Kimmel Live 6-27-08
3:23Unnessary Censorship
One Year of Unnessary Censorship
4:27Fox News Likes YouTube Censorship?
On Fox News, Bill O'Reilly and Amanda Carpenter were more than happy to report on the new restrictions on YouTube, though without reporting on the the changes in profanity rules that are proving most controversial. Meanwhile, Fox Television ...
4:56Why people who believe in censorship suck
Here we have an example of a long held and time-tested theory that that I thought up about five minuts ago, which states that being easilly offended and prudish can actually get people killed. Which of course ties into my further theory that censorship sucks
Censorship from WikiPedia:
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Censorship is the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the government or media organizations as determined by a censor.
The rationale for censorship is different for various types of information censored:
Moral censorship is the removal of materials that are obscene or otherwise morally questionable. Pornography, for example, is often censored under this rationale, especially child pornography, which is censored in most jurisdictions in the world.Military censorship is the process of keeping military intelligence and tactics confidential and away from the enemy.
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