Top Items About Censorship
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Trivia | A brief history of Censorship in America | Seven years after the ratification of the First Amendment in 1791, Congress enacted the Sedition Act [1798] making it a crime... | root | 415 | |
| Images | Funny Ad: Reporters Without Borders | "In Cuba journalists are free to write what they want about Fidel Castro." | root | 74 | |
| Anecdotes | Freedom of Speech? | In 1919, Charles Schenck, general secretary of the Socialist Party, was convicted of attempting to obstruct the draft... | Anonymous | 73 | |
| Trivia | Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo cave to China censorship | In 2005, at the request of the tyranical Chinese government, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo all built censorship... | Anonymous | 65 | |
| Anecdotes | Vladimir Putin: Press Freedom in Russia | "[Russian President Vladimir Putin`s] doings are covered Soviet-style in minute detail in every broadcast," Nicholas... | Anonymous | 51 | |
| Trivia | Trivia about Movies, Censorship and Bans | In 1920, the censorship board of Ohio tried to ban a film version of Treasure Island (1918) for fear that it would... | Anonymous | 51 | |
| Trivia | Trivia about Prudery, Censorship and Beds | Contrary to popular belief, `I Love Lucy` was not the first TV series to show a man and woman sharing a bed. The first... | Anonymous | 50 | |
| Anecdotes | John Bunyan | "John Bunyan, the author of The Pilgrim`s Progress, had little worldly success and much pain. At 16, when he became... | Anonymous | 48 | |
| Jokes | Words You Can Now Say On Television | Top Ten Words You Couldn`t Say On Television 20 Years Ago: 10. Nutmeat | root | 43 | |
| Anecdotes | Graduate student sues Chinese film censors | A quixotic attempt [in 2007] by a graduate student in Beijing, Dong Yanbin, to sue the censors for cutting the sex scenes out... | root | 40 |
