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censorship

sen ser ship

  • n  counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy
  • n  deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances

  • Obviously the issue of censorship is a library question you ask a library director that type of question,' Palin said.
  • By way of clamping down a tight censorship of news and photographs the eight westernmost states and Alaska last fortnight were officially made a "Theater of Operations.
  • Back then, many state and local censorship boards existed, each with the power to ban or eviscerate films.
News & Articles

  • Restrictive drug laws censor science, researchers say
    By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - The outlawing of drugs such as cannabis, magic mushrooms and other psychoactive substances amounts to scientific censorship and is hampering research into potentially important medicinal uses, leading scientists argued on Wednesday. Laws and international conventions dating back to the 1960s have set back research in key areas such as consciousness by decades ...
    June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
  • Censorship lawsuit against Baidu and China gets new life in U.S.
    By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has given a lawsuit by pro-democracy activists against Baidu Inc and the People's Republic of China new life, even after the country invoked its authority as a sovereign nation to block the censorship case. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan said the activists were entitled to serve their lawsuit on Baidu's lawyer in New York, without ...
    June 10, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
  • Censorship Lawsuit Against Baidu, China Gets New Life in US
    A U.S. judge has given a lawsuit by pro-democracy activists against Baidu Inc. and the People's Republic of China new life, even after the country invoked its authority as a sovereign nation to block the censorship case. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan said the activists were entitled to serve their lawsuit on Baidu's lawyer in New York, without infringing China's sovereign ...
    June 10, 2013 - Voice of America
Quotes

  • Anthony Kennedy in BusinessWeek
    The censorship we now confront is vast in its reach,Justice Anthony Kennedy said in his majority opinion, joined by his four more conservative colleagues.
  • Hillary Rodham Clinton in New York Times
    Censorship should not be in any way accepted by any company from anywhere,Mrs. Clinton said. "American companies need to take a principled stand. This needs to be part of our national brand."
  • John Roberts in Brookfield Elm Grove Now (blog)
    As Solicitor General, her disregard for the 1st Amendment came to light in September when she asked the Supreme Court to "embrace theory of First Amendment that would allow censorship not only of radio and television broadcasts, but pamphlets and...

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