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Shari Killjoy vs Sir Kevin Lamenamer

The latest threat to the delicate sensibilities of children? Rhyming.

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British banks try to censor research

Cambridge student exposes flaw in chip and PIN technology

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Carleton asks judge to throw out discrimination case

Students wanted to show graphic images in high-traffic area

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U of T Anti-Racism Office censors its own play

Black-Jew Dialogues couldn't use poster

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Carleton, Khomeini, and free speech

University defends controversial campus conference

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Universities shouldn’t censor satire of Islam

Sensitivity only reinforces stereotype of Muslims as violent

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Rebellion at short notice is her specialty.

UPDATED! New info after the jump! I think most emphatically not: Staffer fired as Conservatives scurry from sex film screening OTTAWA — A provocative movie about the sex lives of young people is too...

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FCC Follies

Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments  in FCC v. Fox, with Fox challenging the FCC fines of “fleeting expletives” in live broadcasting. This blog has a good summary of the questioning...

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China aims to clean up the Internet

China has decided that it has a new enemy: pornography on the Internet. So the Communist party has threatened to shutter 19 major websites and portals, including the dominant search engine Baidu as...

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Busting through Iran’s censorship wall

There’s an effective ban on foreign media in Iran, and domestic media there isn’t free, which makes getting accurate information about what is happening in the country extremely difficult. Those of us...

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Son of a Terminator, Big Brother is driving you and Just another self-hating...

It’s coal in your stocking, bucko Santa shook like a bowl full of Jell-O at the Southlake Mall in suburban Atlanta, but not in a good way. Police in Morrow, Ga., say 45-year-old William C. Caldwell III...

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Be careful what you text in China

Another virtual brick has been added to what has been dubbed “The Great Firewall of China.” According to the state-run China Daily, police will provide mobile phone companies with a set of “key words”...

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Remembering Tiananmen

Chinese censors aren’t laughing. A cartoon published in a Chinese newspaper last week appears to refer to the violent crackdown in 1989 on protesters in Tiananmen Square. It shows a boy drawing a...

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The high-tech cold war that has entangled RIM

JONATHAN GAINER/BLOOMBERG/GETTY/ HARISH TYAGI/EPA/KEYSTONE When Research In Motion signed a deal four years ago to sell BlackBerry handsets in the United Arab Emirates, executives touted it as a...

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The sinner who kept on trying

Martin Roemers/Panos/ Trevor Samson/AFP/Getty Images The cell is an ideal place to learn to know yourself; it gives you the opportunity to look daily into your conduct, to overcome the bad and develop...

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The misfortune of an interesting life

These days, Rushdie seems serene and quietly happy—exactly the type to be calm in the eye of a storm, literary or otherwise | Alberto Estevez/EPA/Keystone Press; Mohsin Raza/Reuters Midtown Manhattan...

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Iranian films go audience-friendly, are explicitly political

Courtesy of Maryam Keshavarz There has never been an Iranian film like it. Circumstance is a love story about two renegade schoolgirls in Tehran who defy authority by cruising underground nightclubs,...

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They said that on network television?

Getty Images; Photo Illustration by Sarah MacKinnon Rape, multiple simultaneous sexual partners, and penis size: they’re not reality-show or cable topics, they’re the jokes on major network sitcoms....

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Twitter is censoring–but don’t rush to judge

Since announcing its uneasy compromise with censorship last week, Twitter has unsurprisingly taken a lot of heat–much of it on Twitter. The company blog raised flags immediately with its mealy-mouthed...

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8 Canadian books people have sought to ban in Canada

Over the decades people have sought to ban from libraries numerous books by Canadian authors because they didn’t like what was contained within their pages. Here are some attempts, listed in reverse...

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