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• By approving the CDA, Congress has established a precedent which condones censorship regulations for the Internet similar to those that exist for traditional broadcast media. ...
• My concerns about Internet censorship prompted me to write "Internet Censorship is Absurd and Unconstitutional. ... First, any law advocating censorship of the Internet is too broad and unenforceable on this global information medium. Second, Internet censorship is a breach of First Amendment rights for those users residing in the United States. ...

• Welcome to the home page of Families Against Internet Censorship. FAIC is committed to opposing censorship on the Internet. ...
• Our goals are 1) to provide a resource for anti-censorship families on the net, 2) to maintain a list of families willing to speak out against Internet censorship, 3) to make families aware of commercial products for filtering objectionable material, and 4) to oppose those who would use the power of government to regulate Internet content in the name of "protecting the family". ...
• Censorship is a double-edged sword we are not willing to risk our children’s futures on. ...
• This page authored by the Page Authors Benefit Against Censorship .

• Home | What's New | About | Site Map | Search This Site You are here: Home » The Net Censorship Dilemma Updated: 8 Jan 2005   The Net Censorship Dilemma: Liberty or Tyranny.
• If you're not sure which side of the censorship debate you're on, or simply want to be better informed about the issues and/or methods of protecting children online, these pages aim to help. ...
• When this site was originally placed online in 1995, the Net censorship debate in Australia was focussed on whether government should or could control communications on the world-wide Net or whether individuals should take responsibility for themselves and those in their care. ...
• In 1999, after numerous inquiries and regulatory proposals, the Australian Commonwealth Government decided to pretend, more or less, that it is King Canute and introduced Internet censorship legislation that commenced operation on 1 January 2000. ...
• Unfortunately, the censorship laws and related government claims are far more successful in giving parents who are unfamiliar with the Internet a false sense of security regarding their children's use of the Internet, than in actually protecting children. ...
• There is nothing more Australian government can do via censorship legislation, short of attempting to massively restrict adults' freedom to read and speak. ... However, censorship legislation that treats all adults as if they were children is not only an infringement of adults' freedom, it condemns today's children to a future in which they are treated as if they are still children. ...
• In September 2002, the Commonwealth Government commenced a review of its Internet censorship laws which apparently took nearly two years (the review report was not issued until May 2004). ...
• It hence appears the C'th Government has finally come to understand what many technologically literate people had been telling them since long before the draconian and largely ineffective Internet censorship laws were enacted. ...
• This site provides comprehensive information on the Australian Internet censorship legislation and the prior and ongoing debate surrounding it. ...
• Censorship System.
• Censorship History 1920-2003.
• Internet Censorship- Global.
• Articles & Media Reports Gov't Coercion & Privatised Censorship Censorware.

• Internet Censorship.
• Current Internet Censorship Efforts.
• Federal Censorship.
• ACLU, the current challenge to Internet censorship now pending before the U. ... Also, see EPIC's Censorware Page for information about the problems raised by technological censorship.
• In addition to these sweeping bills, other less restrictive censorship legislation has been proposed on Capitol Hill.
• State Censorship.
• Despite the Supreme Court's ruling, states are busy crafting censorship laws at home. ... This year, New Mexico has already passed a draconian censorship law, and bills are pending in 10 other states.
• International Censorship.
• International Efforts on Net Censorship.
• Other On-Line Censorship Issues.
• org/free_speech/censorship/default. ...

• Florida Coalition Against Censorship (Menu = fcac).
• What is the Florida Coalition Against Censorship? .
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• Danny Yee Internet Censorship & Civil Liberties in Australia.
• Australian Censorship.
• Federal Net censorship (ABA) .
• State censorship issues .
• Obscenity, Blasphemy, Sedition: The Rise and Fall of Literary Censorship in Australia.
• Snatched: Sex & Censorship in Australia.
• Sense and Censorship (Australian history).
• I attended a Watch on Censorship forum "Meet the Censor", with special guest is Des Clark, the new Director of the OFLC. ...
• Censorship in Australia is discussed in the newsgroup aus. censorship and on the stop-censorship mailing list. ...
• Along with the Electronic Frontiers Australia site, the best source for information on Internet censorship in Australia is Irene Graham's Liberty or Tyranny site; her The State of Censorship covers Australian censorship more generally. ...

• Welcome to The Censorship Pages. ... These pages provide the resources needed to explore how, and why censorship happens not only in the United States, but all around the world. ...
• I haven't found a "Ribbon Campaign" for the pro-censorship side of the issue yet. ...
• This is more true with censorship of the written word than with most topics. ...
• Banned Books Week, an annual anti-censorship campaign, is held every September. ...
• Today, people think, "Censorship? It doesn't affect me?" or "I'm not into any of that stuff" and similar things when confronted with the issue of free speech. ... Censorship is not only an important issue, but an interesting one as well.
• Do you think anyone else can be the judge as well as you, and should they judge? Also included here are books about censorship of the written word.

• Censorship -- the control of the information and ideas circulated within a society -- has been a hallmark of dictatorships throughout history. In the 20th Century, censorship was achieved through the examination of books, plays, films, television and radio programs, news reports, and other forms of communication for the purpose of altering or suppressing ideas found to be objectionable or offensive. The rationales for censorship have varied, with some censors targeting material deemed to be indecent or obscene; heretical or blasphemous; or seditious or treasonous. ...
• Not all censorship is equal, nor does all arise from government or external force. ...
• To understand censorship, and the impulse to censor, it is necessary to strip away the shock epithet value that is attached to the word at first utterance. One must recognize that censorship and the ideology supporting it go back to ancient times, and that every society has had customs, taboos, or laws by which speech, dress, religious observance, and sexual expression were regulated. In Athens, where democracy first emerged, censorship was well known as a means of enforcing the prevailing orthodoxy. Indeed, Plato was the first recorded thinker to formulate a rationale for intellectual, religious, and artistic censorship. ...
• Censorship is no more acceptable for being practiced in the name of religion than for national security (which is certainly an acceptable secular substitute for religious rationales in the 20th Century). It only indicates that confronting censorship must always involve confronting some part of ourselves and our common history that is both painful and deep-seated.
• Unique historical considerations can also spawn censorship. ... That is why this series of snapshots of conditions in various countries and regions will first deal with other areas and levels of censorship and access problems, and then return to the situation in the EU.
• In a global context, governments have used a powerful array of techniques and arguments to marshal support for their censorship efforts. ...
• There are also forms of censorship that are not so obtrusive, and that have to be examined very carefully to define. "Censorship through intimidation" can be anything from threats against individuals to a government proposing to monitor all activities online (as in one proposal current at the time of this writing in Russia). ...
• "Censorship through consensus" is also a real possibility. ...

• Internet Blocking Programs and Privatized Censorship.
• Because of a perspective that might be rendered "government action bad, private action good" There's great unwillingness to think about complicated social systems, of private parties acting as as agents of censorship. ...
• Before going further, it's important to specifically define the meaning of censorship here. ...
• a) The exercise of government power must be crude, blatant, and direct - any subtlety, sophistication, or indirection makes it NOT CENSORSHIP.
• b) The information suppression must be total, complete, and perfect - if any marginalized markets exist anywhere, then it's NOT CENSORSHIP.
• It sounds silly when put so directly, but the using term censorship is so fraught with argument over the definition it's often critical to be absolutely clear as to the meaning. ...
• There are various ways to implement censorship (i. ... But even this very blatant censorship legislation, when studied in detail, has a level of indirection that is worthy of note. ...
• This subtlety is usually well-understood by anti-censorship advocates, but it is worth emphasizing in order to highlight the slight sophistication present. ...
• Although it can be annoying to slog through endless Protect The Children rhetoric, this particular indirection usually doesn't give much trouble in censorship discussion, because what's at issue is the purest form of government action. ...
• I call these various types of systems "privatized censorship". ...
• The private proponents say "Use this system, otherwise the government will pass laws to put you in jail" (this is how they are using the term "alternative" to government censorship). ...
• ", someone is sure to say "But blocking programs and ratings are private action, and that can't be censorship. ...
• Hopefully, the above long argument establishes various systems which have private elements as at least worthy of thought even under the strictest view of the meaning of censorship. When the administration of censorship is privatized, it may lose a measure of effectiveness (though how much is unclear), but it's very evident that the reach is broadened. ...
• When censorship is implemented by government threat in the background, but run by private parties, legal action is nearly impossible, accountability difficult, and this makes the reach of the system extensive. Blocking software is not a censorship solution, but another, different, censorship problem. ...

• Censorship and Intellectual Freedom Page.
• The American Communication Association provides a very large collection of net resources, including other web sites as well as direct links to documents related to censorship and IF (--including campus speech codes and documents from the ACA, ACLU, AAUP, ALA, EFF, etc. ...
• The Bonfire of Liberties page, subtitled "Censorship of the Humanities," is a wonderful exhibit on literary censorship. ...
• The Index on Censorship page is the Web presence for the periodical of the same title. ...
• The National Coalition Against Censorship is "an alliance of over 40 national, non-commercial organizations, including literary, artistic, religious, educational, professional, labor, and civil liberties groups. ... " The "Censorship News" and "Special Projects" links are worth a look.
• The purpose of Project Censored is "to explore and publicize the extent of censorship in our society by locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware, but is not, for one reason or another. ...
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• The following pages list Internet and print resources to help you learn more about censorship in its many guises.
• General Censorship Resources Free expression or censorship as broad concerns, with less emphasis on specific media Book Censorship Citations and links focusing on book censorship and challenges Censorship in Other Media Free expression on the Internet and television/radio, as well as in music, art, etc. ...
• Organizations Primarily links to organizations with emphatic viewpoints on censorship issues Free Expression Outside the United States Censorship and free speech issues around the world, mostly from the countries in question Selected Print Resources A selective bibliography of books and articles available in bookstores and libraries. ...
• Archive of Censorship Cases.
• html "Was there a time or place in history in which censorship did not exist? Was there ever a group of human beings that was able to survive without censure?. ... Despite the impossible nature of attempting to define censorship, The File Room is a project that proposes to address it, providing a tool for discussing and coming to terms with cultural censorship. " Censorship and Intellectual Freedom Page.
• html An annotated collection of links maintained by Frank Quinn at the University of Indiana The Censorship Pages.
• com/censorship/index. ... These pages provide the resources needed to explore how, and why censorship happens not only in the United States, but all around the world. ...
• " Freedom, Discipline, and Censorship.
• edu/~mryder/itc_data/censorship. ... Index on Censorship.
• html "Index on Censorship, the bi-monthly magazine for free speech, widens the debates on freedom of expression with some of the world's best writers. ...
• org/ Project Censored claims its primary objective is "to explore and publicize the extent of censorship in our society by locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware, but is not, for one reason or another. ... " Quotations On Censorship.

• Danny Yee >> Internet Censorship in Australia Music Censorship in Australia.
• Those pushing music censorship are a small minority driven by personal distaste. ...
• Internet Censorship in Australia << Danny Yee .

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