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| + | '''Censorship''' is a restriction of people's rights, often connected with publishing, reading or viewing material. Most countries in the world enforce some censorship on their citizens, normally justifying doing so on social structure or religious grounds. |
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| − | There is a petition for UK citizens or residents to have the UK government re-evaluate the current '''Censorship ''' laws. It is an online petition hosted by the government for the Prime Minister. If you do sign it, please do so in your real name with real details.
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| − | <!-- QUOTED - DO NOT CHANGE OR LINK -->''Signing up to ask the Prime Minister to authorise a full and independent re-examination of the findings of the Home Office Department Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship (Williams Committee) published in 1979 with a view to revising or scrapping the current legislation concerning censorship, much of which was originally based upon false or unprovable premis.''<!-- END QUOTE -->
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| − | The [http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/OpposeCensorship/ Oppose Censorship petition] has a dealine to sign up by of 29 March 2007.
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| − | <!-- QUOTED - DO NOT CHANGE OR LINK -->Censorship is prohibition by another name. History has proven that prohibition is ineffective, all it does is drive up the price and place the distribution of the prohibited commodity in the hands of organised crime. The imposition of censorship for adults upon the written word or images (still or moving) produced with the full informed consent of the participants is both an affront to the notion of a free society and an insult to the intelligence of the electorate. Censorship was originally brought in by the ‘upper class’ because they feared that if the ‘common man and woman’ was exposed to such material they would sink into such national depravity that the workforce would cease to be viable and the country would descend into sexual anarchy. The advent of the Internet over the past 20 years has meant that all of those images have been available, the social experiment has been conducted and no such sexual disaster has ensued. Censorship laws are redundant–repeal them.<!-- END QUOTE -->
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Revision as of 13:04, 3 January 2008
Censorship is a restriction of people's rights, often connected with publishing, reading or viewing material. Most countries in the world enforce some censorship on their citizens, normally justifying doing so on social structure or religious grounds.
See also
