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  Censorship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Censorship is the use of state or group power to control freedom of expression.
The purpose of censorship is to maintain the status quo, to control the development of a society, or to stifle dissent among a subject people.
Censorship is regarded as a typical feature of dictatorships and other authoritarian political systems.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Censorship   (480 words)

  
 Censorship
Censorship is the control of speech, and other forms of human expression, often by (but not limited to) government intervention.
Censorship is regarded among a majority of academics in the Western world as a typical feature of dictatorships and other authoritarian political systems.
Censorship has been alleged to occur in such media policies as blurring the boundaries between hard news and news commentary, and in the appointment of allegedly biased commentators, such as a former government attorney, to serve as anchors of programs labeled as hard news but comprising primarily anti-criminal commentary.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/ce/censorship.html   (2564 words)

  
 Censorship - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The purpose of censorship is to maintain the status quo, to control the development of a society, or to stifle political dissent among a subject people.
Wartime censorship is carried out with the intention of preventing the release of information that might be advantageous to the enemy.
A recent phenomenom for avoiding censorship and speaking directly to members of society is culture jamming, where individuals or non-conforming groups use large-scale corporate techniques to attack implicit domination and censorship through trivial or deliberately irrelevant messages.
www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Censorship   (757 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Censorship Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Censorship is the use of state or group power to control freedom of...
Censorship is a typical feature of dictatorships and other authoritarian political systems.
Some thinkers understand censorship to include other attempts to suppress points of view or ideas such as propaganda, media manipulation, spin, or disinformation.
www.ipedia.com /censorship.html   (523 words)

  
 1873 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remington and Sons of Ilion, New York start production of the first practical typewriter.
March 3 - Censorship: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
May 17 - Dorothy Richardson, English feminist writer (d.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1873   (1267 words)

  
 "'Left' Out - Liberal Censors You Never Hear About"
Many within the library community find it politically expedient to hang the "censorship" tag on the religious right, paranoid parents, or control-freak conservatives.
The reality is many liberals, academicians, feminists and yes, librarians are just as culpable.
In fact, you should consider the silence given by the ALA crowd on the examples cited in this bibliography as proof of "censorship" of their own censorship.
webpages.charter.net /tomeboy/leftout.html   (471 words)

  
 1st SPOT FREEDOM, Liberty, Privacy, Rights, Libertarianism, Drug Policy
Net Citizen place for people to speak to their leaders about issues of importance, both local and global.
Serendipity Sections on Human Rights, Maria Callas, Psychedelics, Liberty and Democracy, Censorship, The Drug War,..
Banned Books And Censorship Every year, books in the U.S. and around the world are challenged.
1st-spot.net /topic_freedom.html   (657 words)

  
 Anarchist Resources Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Another site full of resources for feminists who are against censorshiop
feministdiscussion@onelist.com-A mailing list with feminist discussion in mind.
It used to be the "anarchism" mailing list but was forced to change it's name thanks to the merger of onelist and egroups
www.anarchism.www7.50megs.com   (624 words)

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