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Renowned Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi has described censorship as a world problem and called for reasonable ways to handle it. He said, Censorship is an ugly method of improving our life and added that Police states tackle this problem in a harsh way, while democratic nations do it in a far more reasonable manner. Zanussi, who will be honoured with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at the 43rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa this evening, was addressing the media here this morning. Known for producing acclaimed films like Camouflage, Family life, The Silent Touch, The Contract and Revisited, Zanussi pitched for great ideas to shape the world. Replying to a question on censorship issues in India, he said, Internet may build a completely new society or it may destroy us, so the big challenge is to find a balanced way. His film Illumination will be shown at the festival.

Talking about Indian Cinema, the Polish Master said that Independent Cinema and the popular films are complimentary and one must respect the later for being the representative of common culture, though not satisfying to personal tastes at times. On cinema in his home country, Zanussi said, though it is doing well on a contemporary note, but they are not well recognized as was the case during the political turmoil of early 80s. He said, life is better now in Poland than the Communist era, but the young filmmakers have to cope up with new tragedies and new injustices. Dwelling on the subject of Physics, which Zanussi studied and its relationship with cinema, he said, physics when taken seriously is not engineering but closer to Philosophy.Describing Cinema as a young discipline, the Polish Master, who produced more than 80 films and documentaries, said that his best is yet to come.

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Harvard Professor of history of science Peter Galisonsuggested that censorship and state secrecy are far more extensive and intrusive today than at any previous time in United States history in a talk entitled War, Censorship, and the Mind in Harper last Friday afternoon.

In his talk, Galison spoke on the history of censorship in the U.S. and its effect on the individual psyche. He called censorship in this country a distinctly modern idea and broke it down into three periods that correspond with military action: the Great War (19141918), the Long War (19391989), and the Terror Wars (2001present).

Censorship in the first period resulted from the Espionage and Sedition Acts, which banned speech disruptive to the U.S. militarys recruitment efforts for the First World War and the releasing of sensitive material like tactical maps. These efforts were of small scope and applied to only a small number of subjects.

By contrast, in the last period, brought about by the terrorist attacks of September 11, ordinary centers of civilian life such as airports and personal computers have become fronts in the war on terror and as a result, state surveillance has grown.

Simultaneously, the 2001 U.S.A. Patriot Act and so-called State Secrets Privilege have expanded the scope of classified information to 117 broad categories of government information by what Galison called a radiative effect of secrecy by default.

When the government started adding and other information to lists of classified materials, thats where the tether breaks, Galison said. With this change, the ontology of secrets shifted from forbidding utterances to forbidding entire domains of knowledge.

Galison called this latest advance para-secrecy and channeled his concern into his 2008 film Secrecy, which he co-produced with fellow Harvard professor Robb Moss. Galison screened a clip from the film suggesting that extensive secrecy policies have led to unconstitutional invasions of civilian privacy and human rights violations such as those documented at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.

At the individual level, as early as 1897 Freud made the connection between the Austrian government censoring letters and newspapers and individuals censoring their own thoughts and developing neuroses. Galison worried that the significant growth of censorship since then could have profound negative psychological consequences. We have no idea what para-secrecy does to the human mind, he said.

Galison gave the lecture as the 2012Critical Inquiryvisiting professor, which includes his giving two public lectures and teaching a Ph.D. seminar called Building Crashing Thinking, which investigates the question, How did the machines we make turn around to remake us?

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Prof presents history of censorship during wartime

Prior to August 20, reporters could often be found wearing political T-shirts that said "Stop killing press."

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(CNN) -- It was "censorship day," the 20th of the month, the day Nyein Nyein Naing, executive director of Myanmar's Seven Days News Journal, takes her stories to a government office for pre-publication scrutiny.

Normally, a report on refugees fleeing from the conflict-ravaged Kachin state would not be accepted. Its distribution would most likely result in jail time for the author and suspension of the journal.

But August 20 was a new day for Myanmar, the day the government rescinded repressive media censorship laws that had hindered and intimidated the country's journalists for decades. Still, Naing had her concerns.

After nearly 50 years under the auspices of autocracy, Myanmar is shifting from the tough economic, social and political policies that have shrouded the sovereign state in global isolation.

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Since President Thein Sein's inauguration as Myanmar's first civilian leader in half a century, the light of significant freedoms has emerged from the fog of Myanmar's military rule.

Freedom of the press is stressed as "one of the most important reforms in the long run" by Suzanne Dimaggio, vice president of global policy programs at Asia Society, a nonprofit organization that aims to strengthen ties between the United States and Asia. Yet, according to her, it's "not quite completely open, but it's certainly moving in that direction."

U.S. President Barack Obama voiced similar views, as his historic trip to Myanmar, also known as Burma, brought not only praise for the recent reforms, but also encouragement for the "greater progress that needs to be made in the future," as he put it.

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so everyone is all hung up on being politically correct and non-offensive and everything. So this is my video to those who think that dirty words are relevant and there should be censorship for everything on tv and the radio. I believe in freedom of speech, if you don #39;t, go fuck yourselfFrom:HollowMattViews:2 0ratingsTime:06:48More inEducation

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