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We need to get the United States out of the censorship business by passing a law barring any federal funds for the use of censorship, including grants to academic and NGO groups.
"Yeah, we'll give them a chance and see what the outcome is," Greg said. "I've dropped all my social media, you know, just because it's not fact-checked and it's not policed as well as I believe ...
Censorship is often used to impose moral values on society, as in the censorship of material considered obscene. English novelist E. M. Forster was a staunch opponent of censoring material on the grounds that it was obscene or immoral, raising the issue of moral subjectivity and the constant changing of moral values.
This narrative of platform “censorship” has always been controversial, in part because what critics call censorship is, as the Supreme Court said last year, the exercise of the platforms ...
Internet censorship also occurs in response to or in anticipation of events such as elections, protests, and riots. An example is the increased censorship due to the events of the Arab Spring. Other types of censorship include the use of copyrights, defamation, harassment, and various obscene material claims as a way to deliberately suppress ...
Censorship came to British America with the Mayflower "when the governor of Plymouth, Massachusetts, William Bradford learned [in 1629] [4] that Thomas Morton of Merrymount, in addition to his other misdeed, had 'composed sundry rhymes and verses, some tending to lasciviousness' the only solution was to send a military expedition to break up Morton's high-living."
Political censorship exists when a government attempts to conceal, fake, distort, or falsify information that its citizens receive by suppressing or crowding out political news that the public might receive through news outlets.
Powerful House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan praised Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday for ending censorship efforts at his company — and urged other Big Tech firms such as Google to ...