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UNfree Press: As UN Censorship Alliance Prez Makes Claims, UNTV Shows FUNCA Skepticism
UN #39;s Charade of World Press Freedom Day Had Bid to Censor Opposition By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, May 9 -- At the UN, the head of the UN Correspond...

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ARE YOU SICK OF BEING CENSORSHIP – Video


ARE YOU SICK OF BEING CENSORSHIP
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Rape Culture is a Panic Where Paranoia, Censorship, and False Accusations Flourish

Living Sexual Assault Larry Contratti

Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a TIME contributor, and author of several books, including The War Against Boys. She hosts a weekly video blog The Factual Feminist

On January 27, 2010, University of North Dakota officials charged undergraduate Caleb Warner with sexually assaulting a fellow student. He insisted the encounter was consensual, but was found guilty by a campus tribunal and thereupon expelled and banned from campus.

A few months later, Warner received surprising news. The local police had determined not only that Warner was innocent, but that the alleged victim had deliberately falsified her charges. She was charged with lying to police for filing a false report, and fled the state.

Cases like Warners are proliferating. Here is a partial list of young men who have recently filed lawsuits against their schools for what appear to be gross mistreatment in campus sexual assault tribunals: Drew SterrettUniversity of Michigan, John DoeSwarthmore, Anthony VillarPhiladelphia University, Peter YuVassar, Andre HenryDelaware State, Dez WellsXavier, and Zackary HuntDenison. Presumed guilty is the new legal principle where sex is concerned.

Sexual assault on campus is a genuine problembut the new rape culture crusade is turning ugly. The list of falsely accused young men subject to kangaroo court justice is growing apace. Students at Boston University demanded that a Robin Thicke concert be cancelled: His hit song Blurred Lines is supposedly a rape anthem. (It includes the words, I know you want it.) Professors at Oberlin, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Rutgers have been urged to place trigger warnings on class syllabi that include books like the Great Gatsbytoo much misogynist violence. This movement is turning our campuses into hostile environments for free expression and due process. And so far, university officials, political leaders, and the White House are siding with the mob.

It appears that we are in the throes of one of those panics where paranoia, censorship, and false accusations flourishand otherwise sensible people abandon their critical facilities. We are not facing anything as extreme as the Salem Witch Trials or the McCarthy inquisitions. But todays rape culture movement bears some striking similarities to a panic that gripped daycare centers in the 1980s.

In August 1983, an anguished mother reported to the police that her 2-year old son had been horrifically abused in the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California. She described a network of underground tunnels where school staff had sodomized her child and forced him to watch animal sacrifices. The mother was mentally disturbed and her story had no basis in reality. But the news media seized on the story, and paranoia about Satanic Cults became a national epidemic. Parents were already on edge: advocacy groups, politicians, and the media had warned that nearly 50,000 children were being abducted by strangers, and 4,000 of them murdered, every year. As news of the McMartin barbarity spread, daycare personnel in schools across the nation found themselves implicated in the crime of satanic-ritual child abuse. A national network of abuse-therapists promptly materialized. Through the use of intimidating interviewing techniques, they egged on children to remember terrible abuses in their daycare.

The abuse therapists were joined by an influential group of conspiracy-minded feminists, including Gloria Steinem and Catharine MacKinnon. When a few civil libertarian feministsCarol Tavris, Wendy Kaminer, Ellen Willis, and Debbie Nathantried to blow the whistle on the witch-hunt, they were vilified by the conspiracy caucus as backlashers, child abuse apologists, and obedient daddies girls of male editors.

From the start of the scare in 1983 until its ending in the mid-1990s, untold numbers of children were subject to manipulative therapies and hundreds of innocent adults faced charges of ritual child abuse. Several of the accused would spend years in prison for crimes that never happened. A recent Slate article called it one of the most damaging moral panics in Americas history, which only began to abate when skeptical journalists got round to checking facts and asking questions. A 1985 story in the Los Angeles Times informed readers that, according to FBI reports, the number of child kidnappings by strangers in 1984 was 67, not 50,000

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Lisle museum exhibit to explore film censorship in Chicago

LISLE A Lisle native, museum curator and 22-year-old college student has joined forces with his North Central College professor to create an exhibit exploring the history of Chicago film censorship.

Brian Failing, a senior at North Central, cowrote an upcoming exhibit at the Lisle Station Museum with associate professor of speech communication and coordinator for the college's urban and suburban studies program, Steve Macek, called, "Banned in Chicago: Eight Decades of Film Censorship in the Windy City."

The exhibit is the result of research the two conducted for a book Macek is working on. Failing was Macek's research assistant over the course of two summers.

"He was very excited about the research we were doing on the history of film censorship in Chicago," Macek said. "He thought it would make a compelling exhibit."

Failing has worked at the museum since he was 15 years old, and took over as curator his senior year of high school.

"I thought (film censorship) was a topic that's really important and really interesting that I think a lot of people will like, because everyone likes stuff that has to do with films, movies and Hollywood," Failing said.

In 1907, Chicago became the first city in the country to create a local film censorship authority, Macek said. The city also had the longest-lasting such authority in the country it was dissolved in 1984 after funding for the agency stopped.

"When it was first created, the police chief the head of Chicago police was responsible for reviewing and licensing films," Macek said. "Any films that were amoral or obscene could be banned."

About a decade after the agency was created, Macek said the authority was delegated to a civilian board, which was usually chaired by a police officer. The other members of the board were often women.

"The thinking was that women had a stronger moral sense than men and were better able to determine what was suitable," Macek said.

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EU's Google Ruling is Institutionalized Censorship

Remember Justine Sacco, the PR exec who famously tweeted, Going to Africa. Hope I dont get AIDS. Just kidding. Im white! before hopping aboard a flight to South Africa last December? The tweet went viral while she was airborne and, by the time she landed, half the planet thought she was an insensitive racist jerk. Then she got fired.

But that wasnt the worst of it, not by a long shot. To this day, Googling her name generates hundreds of thousands of results that, near as I can tell, all reference her ill-conceived brush with infamy. Shell probably have to change her name to escape the episode and Googles web crawlers and indexers.

Unless, of course, Sacco moves to Europe. In its infinite wisdom, the European Union Court of Justice has ruled that people can demand that Google (GOOG) remove links in search results for their name, and the Silicon Valley company has to comply. And theres no appeal on such a ruling by the EUs highest court. This is a done deal.

Bet you didnt see that coming. I know I didnt. Apparently, neither did Google.

On the surface, it sounds reasonable enough. Youve done something dumb or somebody important posts something terrible about you, why shouldnt there be a recourse to set the record straight?

Someone who really wants to dig stuff up on you might still be able to find whatever it is youd like hidden (although, among the billions of online pages, without a search engine, Im not sure how). But why should one or two incidents dominate the first place everyone looks to find out about you and color your personal brand for all of eternity?

But when you stop and think about it, when you let the implications of this unassailable ruling sink in, the idea is so wrong and its implementation will have to be so subjective that it will undoubtedly threaten not just the integrity of the Internet the integrity of what used to be a free society.

Consider this: Should we erase an entry from the Library of Congress for any reason? We wouldnt burn any books Fahrenheit 451 style but just delete the references so we can make believe they dont exist that the events they chronicle never really happened and make everyone search through thousand of shelves to find them.

And which references to which books would we erase? The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Youve got to admit, that was some pretty evil stuff. Im sure there are white supremacy groups that would love to see that go away. How about Ball Four, the blockbuster that embarrassed Major League Baseball and tarnished Mickey Mantels pristine reputation? Or The Smartest Guys in the Room, about the Enron scandal? What about novels like Atlas Shrugged? I know an awful lot of people that would kill to see all references to Ayn Rands controversial and politically charged work simply vanish into thin air.

The EUs highest court says we all have the right to be forgotten, that events from the past however lawful and accurate their representations might be simply stop being relevant or become excessive, in time. We should all have the right to move on with our lives and let the past be forgotten. Let bygones be bygones.

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