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Real Time with Bill Maher: Self Censorship vs. Free Speech (HBO)
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Mediatwits 143: Free Speech And Self-Censorship After Charlie Hebdo Attacks
Following the violent attack on Charlie Hebdo, a satirical French weekly that published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, media organizations had to decide whether or not to publish sensitive...

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Its Time To Discuss Respect, Tolerance, And Censorship
After the events of yesterday and the way my comment feed got out of hand, I feel like I need to discuss Respect, Tolerance, and Censorship. Both in relationship to my channel and how I feel...

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1. One reason I broadly oppose governmental restrictions on the expression of ideas even obviously bad, dangerous, and offensive ideas is the phenomenon I call censorship envy: The common reaction that, If my neighbor gets to ban speech he reviles, why shouldnt I get to do the same?

To offer one example, say Congress and the states pass a constitutional amendment allowing a ban on flag burning. It seems to me quite likely, and psychologically understandable, that this will push for greater moves to ban other speech, such as display of the Confederate flag. Such a misplaced desire for equality of repression is a powerful mental force, and its one way in which narrow speech restrictions can end up leading to broader ones.

But beyond this, even if the envy doesnt lead to broader speech restrictions, that itself is dangerous to society. Say (as is likely) that, even if an anti-flagburning amendment passes, any move to similarly ban the Confederate flag fails. Display of the Confederate flag will then likely rankle people even more, creating more offense and more division.

Right now, when people mostly blacks, I suspect are deeply offended by what they see as a symbol of racism and slavery, the legal system can powerfully tell them: Yes, you must endure this speech that you find so offensive, but others must endure offensive speech, too. Many people hate flag burning as much as you hate the Confederate flag, but the Constitution says we all have to live with being offended: We must fight the speech we hate through argument, not through suppression.

Yet what would we say when flag burning is banned but other offensive symbols are allowed? We in the majority get to suppress symbols we hate, but you in the minority dont? Our hatred of flag burning is reasonable but your hatred of the Confederate flag is unreasonable?

If you were black and saw the Confederate flag as a symbol of slavery and racism and, rightly or wrongly, millions of people do would you be persuaded by these arguments? Would you feel better about America because of them?

Or conversely, say that a hate speech exception was recognized: Censorship envy would create considerable pressure to likewise create an exception for speech seen as expressing anti-American hatred. Indeed, as I noted before, former congresswomanJo Ann Emerson has already called for an anti-flag burning amendment partly on the grounds that while the First Amendment protects free speech, it offers no protection for hate speech a legal error, to be sure, but if hate speech were indeed unprotected, the congresswomans argument would likely have a great deal of public traction.

2. This is also one of the reasons (though not the only one) why I oppose European-style hate speech laws, bans on Holocaust denial, bans on praising terrorists, and the like, and why I think the recent French crackdown on speech that praises the jihadist slaughters is misguided.

One recurring argument from Muslims who want the cartoons legally suppressed is that European laws prohibit other kinds of speech offensive to other groups for instance, Holocaust denial, which is often restricted chiefly because its seen as implicitly or explicitly anti-Semitic and that Muslims should get the same treatment. In practice, those other prohibitions dont get used that often, and European speech is actually more free than the laws would suggest. Nonetheless, the laws presence does make possible the argument I describe. And I suspect it does make many Muslims feel even more aggrieved than they would be by the cartoons themselves, since they are also now aggrieved by what they see as discriminatorily enforced laws.

Consider, just as one example among many, Norwegian Penal Code 135 & 135a:

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Resident Evil CENSORED - Intro Cutscene/Movie - Video Game Censorship
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Video 5:17 Human Rights Commissioner says Racial discrimination act a form of censorship
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Ignorance Is Power - exposes FDA censorship of nutritional science
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New Delhi, Jan 15:

Censorship of information in the present age is an impossibility, Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley said today but observed that aberrations like paid news are likely to creep in when news organisations do not have realistic financial models.

He said the definition of news and the behaviour of consumer have changed with technological advancement and something that camera cannot capture is hardly news these days.

Articulating his views on the media scene at a function here, Jaitley said, One of the worries is that the financial model for all (news) organisations must be a realistic model. If the financial model is not a realistic model, then imperfections will enter. And these imperfections will lead to aberrations. Paid news is one such aberration.

Paid news has been a concern about which even the Election Commission has been looking at ways to deal with.

At the same time, he made it clear that media censorship in the current age was not possible.

Fortunately, there are very few dictatorships in the world. But even if there were, censorship, because of technology itself would be an impossibility, he said.

Jaitley, who also holds Finance Ministry portfolio, said that in this age of competition and to gain more eyeballs, it may seem that quality is being compromised. However, he added that he had faith that in the long run, the best will succeed.

He said the rapid advances of technology in broadcasting sector have brought along their own challenges and it is difficult to predict the future horizons of this evolution.

With tools of information dissemination freely available, Jaitley said he had at times read his own speeches which he had never delivered.

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