censorship

Hollywood Means Business

Theater owners are in three different businesses: showing movies; showing advertisements--previews, which must be shown as part of their contract,…

20 years ago

An ”Aha!” Moment: Emotion, Opinion, and Fact

Since my graduate school background is in literature rather than composition studies, I may be stumbling along a well-trod path,…

20 years ago

The Liminal Classroom

"What," I asked, "are we to make of Plato's attempts to define justice?" A chill descended. Noses burrowed into The…

20 years ago

Teacher In Trouble For Ripping Bible

An Idaho English teacher is in trouble for ripping up a Bible in class. Burley High's Karen Christenson said she…

20 years ago

Silencing Huck Finn

Maybe there was some legitimacy to banning some of the books on the list. Maybe there were lines that should…

20 years ago

Chipping away at Pygmalion and Galatea

Pygmalion is a legendary sculptor (whose role as King of Cyprus seems unimportant to most versions of the story) known…

21 years ago

Humanity will survive information deluge

There are instances when, in the interests of the majority, some censorship may be used for a period of time.…

21 years ago

Examples/Discussion on Academic Blogging Policies?

Is it possible to write a policy for academic blogging that respects a university's mission but doesn't amount to censorship?…

21 years ago

CBS Passes on "Reagans" Biography

Kitty Kelly has sold it to CBS. No, just kidding. A tremendous night. It's the beginning of a second media…

21 years ago

Terranova: Golems and Community

Everyone should agree that good AI certainly creates more enjoyable games (see Barney in Half-Life). This is probably a correlative…

21 years ago

Art Spiegelman, Cartoonist for The New Yorker, Resigns in Protest at Censorship

"The great majority of the readers who adore the warm and relaxing bath of their accustomed New Yorker were very…

22 years ago

Google Censoring Web Content (Oct 2002)

"Nobody expects Google, or any index, to be perfect, since the Web is growing and changing so fast and many…

22 years ago