censorship

Images of war are okay, but the word f*ck is bad. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=494&ncid=762&e=8&u=/ap/20050218/ap_en_tv/tv_censored_soldiers

Apparently schools in Australia are banning a new kids book: Story Somepages are available at the books page. It is for kids age 8 and up. The author claims it's just black humor, and that kids will get it. Some parents, teachers and booksellers think it's too violent. To me it just seems...

Extract from yesterday's news here in South Africa (apologies for not providing a link) demonstrating the level of paranoia in the upper echelons of Zim politics. "Zim suppresses the net The Zimbabwean government has proposed new contracts to Internet service providers that will force them to...

Provided that no powerful government authority in the USA pushes for banning PG-13 horror movies as part of the war on terror, do you personally have a problem with the enforcement of some degree of civility on the public airwaves? How about individuals loudly and continuously shouting...

Bush already takes anti-Bush people and sequesters them a few blocks away behind a fence and doesn't allow the media to interview them during one of his speeches. (By the way, Kerry still has to face anti-Kerry people in the front row.) Does anyone here think it's just a matter of time before...

Incredibly, some congressmen have drafted some legistation that defines words that are, in and of themselves, indecent, regardless of context. The same group wants to empower the FCC to increase the fines to be levied against regulated media that air these bad words. Here's a Salt Lake Tribune...

In the states you cant show womens breasts on TV. Apparently you cant show man boobs either!!! I forget what i was watching. It was some expose on underground plastic surgens. This bodybuilder guy wanted pec implants, but the "doctor" messed up and his chest ended up looking like womens...

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/2651383/detail.html Never got to see the article, though.

A big debate in the Australian Labor Party about people being muzzled on expressing their views on this issue. The Israeli Ambassador has weighed into the debate. Now, is this his place to do this? Amabassadors are there to provide communications between nations. I did not know they were...

http://www.jointogether.org/sa/news/summaries/reader/0,1854,566450,00.html ..full article Meanwhile, Im going to continue to buy cigarettes for "minors".