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IF I DON'T KNOW. KIND OF AGGRAVATING TO ME. THE HIGH SCHOOL HAS BEEN TOLD TO STOP USING THE PHRASE GOD BLESS AMERICA ON MORNING ANNOUNCEMENT. ATHEIST GROUP CONTACTED THE SCHOOL AND COMPLAINED AND ASK THE PHRASE NOT BE USED DURING THE MORNING ANNOUNCEMENT. SCOTT IS LOOKING INTO THIS AND HE JONES US LIVE NOW FROM PLAY OF THE NIGHT SCHOOL. IF FROM THE DISTRICT PERSPECTIVE AND ATHEIST GROUP PROTECTIVE IF THE PHRASE SHOWS UP ON THE MORNING ANNOUNCEMENT IT MEANS THE DISTRICT ENDORSE A BELIEF IN GOD. WHICH THIS ATHEIST GROUPS SAYS THEY CAN ATHEIST GROUPS SAYS THEY CAN DO. THE STUDENT WAS TOLD TO STOP. CONTROVERSY BEGAN WHEN STUDENT WHO READS MORNING ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE HIGH SCHOOL WENT OFF SCRIPT AND ADDED SOME WORD OF HIS OWN, GOD BLESS AMERICA, AMERICA. THE DISTRICT TELLS ME IT HAPPENED MORE THAN WOULD IT HAPPENED MORE THAN WOULD SAY. ATHEIST STUDENTS BOTHERED BY THAT SAID OVER THE LOUD SPEAKER. I THINK EVERYTHING HAS THAT OPINION. THE YOU CAN SAY WHATEVER YOU WISH TO SO I MAKE NO STATEMENT SUPPORTING OR DENYING. IF IT'S NOT YOUR BELIEF THEN DON'T SAID. STAWPT REACTION ARE MIXED. MULTIPLE TRUCK TODAY WITH GOD BLESS AMERICA WRITTEN ON THE WINDOW. THIS IS BECOME NATIONAL NEWS BECAUSE OF INSTEAD OF THE STUDENTS LETTING THE PRINCIPAL KNOW A LINE ADDED THEY CONTACTED THE AMERICAN HUMAN ASSOCIATION BASED IN WASHINGTON, D.C. GOT INVOLVED. DON'T WANT GOD LANGUAGE INJECTED IN THE SCHOOL DAY. THEY CONNECTLY PERCEIVE THIS AS THE SCHOOL TAKING A POSITION ON A RELIGIOUS ISSUE PROMOTING THE IDEA OF GOD AND THEY THOUGHT IT WAS INAPPROPRIATE AND THEY WERE RIGHT ABOUT THAT. IT IS AN ESTABLISHMENT VICHLINGTS AS A RESULT OF THIS THE STUDENT WHO READS ANNOUNCEMENT HAS BEEN ASKED TO STOP SAYING GOD BLESS AMERICA WHEN THEY ARE READ AND STIBINGT TO THE SCRIPT BY THE PRINCIPAL. STUDENT HAS NOT BEEN PUN YOU SHOULD OR REMOVED FROM THE MORNING NOUMTIONMENT. DON'T DO THAT ANY MORE FIGHT SETTING TO KNOW OUR STUDENT WAS KIND OF DOWN FOR. THAT HE SPOKE WHAT HE FELT WAS RIGHT AND I'M KIND OF UPSET OUR PRINCIPAL DIDN'T BACK HIM UP. THEN I FELT HER RIGHT SHE WOULD HAVE GONE IN TROUBLE STANDING UP TO HIM. SCHOOL DISTRICT IS SAYING THIS STUDENT CAN SAY GOD BLESS AMERICA AS MANY TIMES ON CAMPUS URGE THEN A THAT WOULD ACCOUNT FOREIGN DOORSMENT BY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT SEW HAS TO STICK TO THE SCRIPT FOR THE MORNING ANNOUNCEMENT AND WHAT THE ANNOUNCEMENT AND WHAT THE HUMANISM GROUP THINKS OF IT THEY WERE SATISFIED HOW THE SCHOOL DISTRICT RESPONDED.

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Street Fighter 3 2nd Impact CENSORED – Akuma’s Defeat Portrait’s Blood – Video Game Censorship – Video

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Did you know non-Japanese versions of Street Fighter 3 2nd Impact ( ) censor Akuma #39;s defeat portrait? In the JP version of SF3 2nd Impact...

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Censorship – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication or other information which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by governments, media outlets, authorities or other groups or institutions.

Governments, private organizations and individuals may engage in censorship. When an individual such as an author or other creator engages in censorship of their own works or speech, it is called self-censorship. Censorship may be direct or it may be indirect, in which case it is called soft censorship. It occurs in a variety of different media, including speech, books, music, films, and other arts, the press, radio, television, and the Internet for a variety of claimed reasons including national security, to control obscenity, child pornography, and hate speech, to protect children or other vulnerable groups, to promote or restrict political or religious views, and to prevent slander and libel.

Direct censorship may or may not be legal, depending on the type, place, and content. Many countries provide strong protections against censorship by law, but none of these protections are absolute and frequently a claim of necessity to balance conflicting rights is made, in order to determine what can and cannot be censored. There are no laws against self-censorship.

Socrates defied censorship and was sentenced to drink poison in 399BC for promoting his philosophies. Plato is said to have advocated censorship in his essay on The Republic. The playwright Euripides (480406BC) defended the true liberty of freeborn men, the right to speak freely.[2]

The rationale for censorship is different for various types of information censored:

Strict censorship existed in the Eastern Bloc.[9] Throughout the bloc, the various ministries of culture held a tight rein on their writers.[10] Cultural products there reflected the propaganda needs of the state.[10] Party-approved censors exercised strict control in the early years.[11] In the Stalinist period, even the weather forecasts were changed if they had the temerity to suggest that the sun might not shine on May Day.[11] Under Nicolae Ceauescu in Romania, weather reports were doctored so that the temperatures were not seen to rise above or fall below the levels which dictated that work must stop.[11]

Independent journalism did not exist in the Soviet Union until Mikhail Gorbachev became its leader; all reporting was directed by the Communist Party or related organizations. Pravda, the predominant newspaper in the Soviet Union, had a monopoly. Foreign newspapers were available only if they were published by Communist Parties sympathetic to the Soviet Union.

Possession and use of copying machines was tightly controlled in order to hinder production and distribution of samizdat, illegal self-published books and magazines. Possession of even a single samizdat manuscript such as a book by Andrei Sinyavsky was a serious crime which might involve a visit from the KGB. Another outlet for works which did not find favor with the authorities was publishing abroad.

The People's Republic of China employs sophisticated censorship mechanisms, referred to as the Golden Shield Project, to monitor the internet. Popular search engines such as Baidu also remove politically sensitive search results.[12]

Iraq under Baathist Saddam Hussein had much the same techniques of press censorship as did Romania under Nicolae Ceauescu but with greater potential violence.[citation needed]

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New book retraces the idea of censorship

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New book retraces the idea of censorship

Censorship is often regarded as a new concept used by modern leaders to suppress ideas and thought. But a new book edited by Dr Geoff Kemp from the University of Auckland outlines how censorship has been part of human life for 2500 years.

In Censorship Moments: Reading Texts in the History of Censorship and Freedom of Expression an international team of experts explores the nature of debates over censorship from Socrates and Cato to the later twentieth century.

The book is pointing out that the whole idea of censorship is bound up with history. The story of censorship is in part the story of democracy, Dr Kemp says.

Chapter topics range from ancient Roman Censorship to the Papal Index of Prohibited Books, the American founders and the censorship of public opinion, and Lenin and George Orwell on censorship. Contributors are drawn from the US, UK, Germany, Italy, Ireland and New Zealand, and feature leading historians of political thought such as Professor Bryan Garsten of Yale University and Professor Melissa Lane of Princeton University Professor Lane will visit Auckland as a Hood Fellow in semester two this year.

Dr Kemp, a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations in the School of Social Sciences, has also written a chapter, Areopagiticas Adversary: Henry Parker and the Humble Remonstrance.

Areopagitica is the most celebrated denunciation of pre-publication press censorship in the English language. It was written by John Milton, poet and a civil servant for the Commonwealth (republic) of England under Oliver Cromwell, and published 23 November 1644, at the height of the English Civil War.

The Humble Remonstrance of the Company of Stationers had been written in April 1643 by political writer Henry Parker to support press regulation. The chapter asks how Milton and Parker, both associated with ideas of republican liberty, could differ on so fundamental an issue as free expression.

University of Auckland colleague Dr Katherine Smits chapter The Silencing of Womens Voices: Catharine MacKinnons Only Words discusses how Professor MacKinnons book identifies pornography as a key source of the continuing censorship of women, although it is, ironically defended on anti-censorship grounds.

The books release is topical given the recent Leveson Inquiry into the British Press, and the massacre of 12 people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris last month.

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