censorship issues

I just love the irony in this one - it took over 200 years to enable Poms to be able to print & buy Fanny Hill, but only 53 to get to a time when it's removed from a university because it might offend someone. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11904416 If a book...

In one of the greatest faux democracies in the world, Big Brother is saving us from all turning into gay penguins...

What do you think of when you hear the term "Political Correctness". I tend to think of censorship, and art being censored beyond recognition. My main case is the numerous times licensed anime has been censored to the extent that it is barely recognisable. Take the English Dub for One Piece...

Tim Minchin wrote and recorded a new Christmas song (WoodyAllenJesus) specially for the Jonathan Ross show to be shown tomorrow night (23rd), only for it to be cut out later. Full story here. Here's the song: _SFdUJLebzU

Interesting China story. China's leaders are about to meet to reshuffle the leadership. Recently Wen Jiabao made a speech advocating political reform, but the Central Propaganda Department seems to be censoring it. A speech by the premier of China being censored by others in the party central...

Title: Censorship of the Internet Takes Center Stage in "Online Infringement Bill" Author: Richard Esguerra URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09/censorship-internet-takes-center-stage-online Opinions?

In recent days, I have spend a little time commenting on videos posted on youtube by twoofers. With a few youtube members, part of the debate spilled to their or my channel / profile. So far, 3 of them have decided to block me from making any further comments on their pages and videos...

China renews Google's license to operate its site Wolfman, can you confirm this? This seems like another hopeful sign for China.

Pertinent info here: http://www.blog.encyclopediadramatica.com/?p=84 Basically, Encyclopedia Dramatica is a U.S. based website in the vein of Somethingawful.com etc... Posters post what they want, mainly with the intent of upsetting those that are most easily upset. The site definitely is...

I would like to know if the censorship of the internet can pose a great threat for the JREF forums? I figured that it would threaten most websites but, is it possible that the JREF forums are at a greater risk than most sites? (I mean being a haven for anti-PETA folks, a source for...

Fox paid to make a 'Family Guy' episode on abortion titled "Partial Terms of Endearment," but has decided to not let it air. This the second time Fox has decided to not air a 'Family Guy' episode. Clearly Fox has the right/power to do this, but I think this reeks of News Corp hypocrisy. That...

I guess this would go in current events. Here's the story I pulled from TechCrunch (still can't link I think) What do you all think of this? Here's what I say Here's some traffic information on the site from Alexa the Web Information Company. It's the 322nd most popular site in the US and...

Beijing Adds Curbs on Access to Internet The communist party is not supposed to be religious, but they do seem to be very puritanical. Is censoring porn because the Chinese are actually that puritanical or because it is a pretext for censoring political speech or both?

While I personally think that the censorship in the US Media is ridiculous concerning any not even gruesome or naked image - and while I really like the Idea of Youtube, I think that all those actual Suicide-, Murder-, Autopsy-, Accident-Videos are a little bit too harsh for a young audience...

Australia Joins China In Censoring The Internet Okay, any Australians better come here and clear the name of their country if this is just over-hype. But really, I liked Labor in the last election. WTF? To go to the source: Won't someone think of the children? Though I have to laugh that...

OK. I went to Lollapalloza this weekend to see my favorite band Pearl Jam. Details here from the live music thread in Arts section of this forum. As many know they are a politically charged band. Their show was playing live on the net in a blue room performance, but AT&T censored out all of...

http://www.hcnonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17270600&BRD=1574&PAG=461&dept_id=532215&rfi=6 See which book...Irony meeter tacking off the dial! Please...would someone mess with Texas?

A Caney Creek High School dad is fired up because the Conroe Independent School District uses the book "Fahrenheit 451" as classroom reading material. (bolding mine) I AGREE! I think every book that has "a bunch of very bad language in it" should be banned! Fugging Jeebus, I think these...