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Radio 3Fourteen - Dee Smith - The End of a Precessional Cycle
Dee Smith, hosts a talk radio program called Sirius Rising along with Danny Wilten. She also runs a Youtube channel called Thyalwaysseek. We #39;ll begin the discussion about the government control system in Australia, including Internet censorship. Then, we #39;ll talk about Earth changes and the general state of the world. She also shares her research into mythologies from ancient cultures and tells how they are relaying the stories of our time as we move into a new era. We #39;ll discuss what this new era is as we come to the end of this precessional cycle. http://www.youtube.comFrom:RedIceRadioViews:190 20ratingsTime:58:56More inEducation

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Censorship and "Unlearning Liberty" at College: Q A with FIRE #39;s Greg Lukianoff
"The...idea that if you just let people talk, it will be this pit of racist pandemonium...is sort of childish and it oversimplifies. But it is a great justification for having a lot of power over speech," says Greg Lukianoff, the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). Lukianoff spoke with Reason TV #39;s Nick Gillespie about his new book Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate, where he details the slow and steady withering of free expression on America #39;s college campuses. In some ways, the modern on-campus free-speech movement dates back to 1993 #39;s "water buffalo incident" at the University of Pennsylvania, where a student was brought up on racial harassment charges for using the term "water buffalo" as an insult. That case led directly to the founding of FIRE, which "defends free speech, due process and basic rights on campus." A Stanford Law-trained liberal who blogs at the Huffington Post, Lukianoff insists that by restricting controversial or potentially offensive speech, "you #39;re putting people into echo chambers" where they only interact with people with whom they already agree. That sort of groupthink is dangerous to a free society, says Lukianoff, but it #39;s particularly appalling to see it instituted at the nation #39;s colleges and universities, where the free exchange of ideas is supposed to be the whole point of higher education. Runs about 16 minutes. Produced by Anthony L. Fisher. Camera by Jim Epstein and ...From:ReasonTVViews:89 5ratingsTime:16:21More inNews Politics

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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. I worked on this collaboratively with Vanessa Periam (vanessaperiam.tumblr.com We wanted to experiment with objects as a means of communication. The elastic band portrays censorship and the breaking of this signifies the removal which then shows progress by being able to open the scissors freely.From:sthartcreativeViews:0 0ratingsTime:00:08More inAutos Vehicles

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IT IS too easy to laugh. When Sakina Kamwendo invited three print journalists to discuss the media coverage of the African National Congresss (ANCs) Mangaung conference on her Metro FM show, the show was pulled at the last minute by the SABCs acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng.

The reason he gave afterwards was simple: the show was not balanced because the subject was the ANCs conference and there was no ANC representative on the panel.

Now, as we all know, the SABC treasures "balance"; it honours "balance"; it reveres balance". Ja, right.

The irony, of course, is that far from making the discussion "balanced" by including an ANC representative, it would have made the discussion unbalanced as it would then plainly have excluded the voice of any political grouping other than the ANC. Somehow, this did not seem to occur to Motsoeneng.

The discussion included three of the most fair-minded journalists in the political game: Sthembiso Msomi from the Sunday Times, Sam Mkokeli from Business Day and Andrew England from the Financial Times.

Msomi actually tweeted afterwards that, ironically, one of the points he intended making was that the coverage of the conference by the SABC had been pretty fair to his mind.

In any event, Motsoenengs justification for pulling the interview was roundly ridiculed, as it should have been.

Someone joked that Top Gear has been pulled off the SABC too because nobody had consulted the ANC on its views on driving.

Personally, I feel for the presenters of the religious programming. You can imagine the conversation. "Hi, Mr Lucifer, we would like to invite you to join us on the Kingdom Come programme, because our policy requires a balanced approach at all times, and we would like to offer you the opportunity to, you know, present your side of the story."

Its all slightly comical and funny except that it isnt. For a start, the recent history of the SABC is just ridiculous, starting with Motsoeneng himself.

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Censorship at SABC is funny — but it’s not a joke

STOCKHOLM - This year's Nobel Prize in literature winner, Mo Yan, who has been criticized for his membership in China's Communist Party and reluctance to speak out against the country's government, defended censorship Thursday as something as necessary as airport security checks.

He also suggested he won't join an appeal calling for the release of the jailed 2010 Peace Prize laureate, Liu Xiaobo, a fellow writer and compatriot.

Mo has been criticized by human rights activists for not being a more outspoken defender of freedom of speech and for supporting the Communist Party-backed writers' association, of which he is vice-president.

His comments Thursday, made during a news conference in Stockholm, appear unlikely to soften his critics' views toward him.

Awarding him the literature prize has also brought criticism from previous winners. Herta Mueller, the 2009 literature laureate, called the jury's choice of Mo a "catastrophe" in an interview with the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter last month. She also accused Mo of protecting the Asian country's censorship laws.

China's rulers forbid opposition parties and maintain strict control over all media.

Mo said he doesn't feel that censorship should stand in the way of truth but that any defamation, or rumours, "should be censored."

"But I also hope that censorship, per se, should have the highest principle," he said in comments translated by an interpreter from Chinese into English.

Mo is spending several days in Stockholm before receiving his prestigious prize in an awards ceremony next Monday.

He won the Nobel for his sprawling tales of life in rural China. In its citation, the jury said Mo "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary."

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Chinese Nobel winner says censorship necessary, dodges calls for dissident's release