Now that the Olympics are long gone, and the world has its eyes off of China, the country's government has returned to keeping an eye on what its 250 million Internet users can access. It appears China, which has the most web users in the world, only made superficial advances in freedom of the press during the games. In other words: censorship is back!
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This is an odd case of censoring that if applied at the debate last night, could have made things look very different. In a congressional debate in Pennsylvania, a TV station has censored remarks made by one of the candidates because they were erroneous. Bleeping out a mistake?
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Apparently, Eva Mendes is too sexy for America. A few months ago, Mendes's CK perfume ads were banned and now the actress's ads for Calvin Klein's new lingerie line have been considered too raunchy for television by censors in the US.
"I was surprised at the fuss because the ad I did is so typically Calvin, where it's really pushing the envelope.
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A song lyric containing a swear word slipped from my daughter's lips the other day, and I was taken aback. At four, she loves music and listens to it daily. But since lyrics blare just about everywhere — on the radio, in people's cars, at the mall, and on television commercials — it's hard to edit everything my kids hear.
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A defendant in an obscenity trial hopes to introduce Google search data to show that community tastes go beyond apple pie and toward a more sexual appetite. Under the law, a jury or judge must decide if the alleged obscenity violates the vague benchmark of "community standards."
In the past, defendants have relied on the wide availability of sexual material in the community, to prove standards.
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Joan Rivers recently appeared on a UK daytime talk show and let her mouth run loose thinking the censors would clean up her foul language. There was just one problem: the show was live and there were no *bleeping censors around. Even funnier is the fact that Joan knew these curse words were about to fly — as she went out of her way to alert the censors — but she said them anyway.
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Whereas normal people like to have fun with unnecessary censorship, the "artistic types" (in this instance: pervs) prefer to strip down, throw a party, and play with necessary censorship. Is it art? Or just an excuse to get drunk and (let it all) hang out?
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