Not exact matches
«Given that Canada's foreign
policy has put gender equity issues prominently
at the top of its agenda, obviously this is something we wanted to highlight here: That you have a Canadian company actively undermining those rights abroad by facilitating
censorship in countries where those rights aren't respected or recognized,» Ron Deibert, director of Citizen Lab, told me over the phone.
David M. Lampton, director of China Studies
at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, said it was not surprising for China to balk
at the idea of an American company using Hong Kong, and China's own «one country, two systems»
policy, as a way around
censorship.
CNN: Twitter blocks content of German neo-Nazi group Twitter will withhold content from a neo-Nazi account
at the request of German authorities, the first time it has put into action a
policy of local
censorship it adopted in January and a step that will probably reignite debate over freedom of expression on the Internet.
(CNN)- Twitter will withhold content from a neo-Nazi account
at the request of German authorities, the first time it has put into action a
policy of local
censorship it adopted in January and a step that will probably reignite debate over freedom of expression on the Internet.
When political scientist Gary King of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science
at Harvard University and Ph.D. students Jennifer Pan and Margaret Roberts began examining
censorship in China in 2011, many scholars assumed that calling for
policy changes, criticizing government leaders, and raising sensitive topics like the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 were verboten.
Although there was a no
censorship policy, Neel's painting, above, was deemed inappropriate
at the inaugural exhibition and was turned toward the wall when a nearby Church complained.
Censorship of Mapplethorpe's The Perfect Moment exhibition,
at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC, marks the beginning of a more restrictive cultural
policy in the United States.
In the early days, there was a» no
censorship»
policy at the exhibit, but when works were deemed offensive, as Alice Neel's «Degenerate Madonna» was in the inaugural year, the canvases were proudly turned to the wall, as badges of avant - garde honor.
I'm not planning to respond
at RealClimate in view, mainly, of their
censorship policy.