From the establishment of the Tokugawa bakufus headquarters at Edo, although Kyoto remained the formal capital of the country the de facto capital was now Edo ; it was the center of political power.

There is very little Internet censorship in Hong Kong beyond laws that criminalize the distribution of certain materials, particularly child pornography, obscene images, and pirated materials.

He refused to authorise the birching of prisoners and was responsible for the relaxation of the laws relating to divorce, abolition of theatre censorship and gave government support to David Steel's Private Member's Bill for the legalisation of abortion and Leo Abse's bill for the decriminalisation of homosexuality.

Mars apparently emerged as a refuge from the fascist censorship laws of Earth, until the arrival of a government organization referred to only as " Moral Climates " and their enforcement divisions, the " Dismantlers " and " Burning Crew ".

About. com said it would obey all laws and sidestepped the issue of censorship by saying that the chosen topics were not controversial to the government of China.

Though generally not at the top of Wilson's personal areas of priority, his first period in office was notable for substantial legal changes in a number of social areas, including the liberalisation of laws on censorship, divorce, homosexuality, immigration, and abortion, as well as the abolition of capital punishment, due in part to the initiatives of backbench MPs who had the support of Roy Jenkins during his time as Home Secretary.

The group rose to public prominence in September 2006, after 17 members ( including 11 soldiers ) were arrested under the December 2003 anti-terrorist laws and laws against racism, anti-semitism and supporters of censorship.

Chateaubriand, the most prominent of the anti-Villèle ultras, had combined with others opposed to press censorship laws ( a new law had reimposed it on 24 July 1827 ) to form the Société des amis de la liberté de la presse ; Choiseul-Stainville, Salvandy and Villemain were among the contributors.

Pamphlets were sent out which evaded the censorship laws, and the group provided organizational assistance to liberal candidates against pro-government state officials in the November 1827 election.

It is worth noting that 75 % of Singapore's population is Chinese, some members of the band are Malays and that Singapore's strict censorship laws mean that racist and anti-semitic material is illegal on the island.

The Carlsbad Decrees, introduced on September 20, 1819 led to a general crackdown on universities, the dissolution of the Burschenschaften and the introduction of censorship laws.

What may be considered offensive will differ in countries due to censorship laws and local customs and ethics.

The laws of the time stated that any book under 320 pages had to be submitted to censorship ( the authorities thought long books would cause little trouble as they were unpopular ).

This occurred during the regime of Johann Friedrich Struensee, whose first act was to abolish the old censorship laws.

Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China is conducted under a wide variety of laws and administrative regulations.

They are separated into two separate laws mainly to maintain the tradition of the Freedom of the Press Act from 1766, largely the work of proto-Liberal Cap Party politician Anders Chydenius, which abolished censorship and restricted limitations to retroactive legal measures for criticism of the Lutheran state church and the royal house exclusively.

With the fifth album, " The Trail of the Navajos ", Giraud established his own style, and after censorship laws were loosened in 1968 the strip became more explicitly adult, and also adopted a wider range of thematics.

Because of the censorship laws of the shogunate in the Genroku era, which forbade portrayal of current events, the names were changed.

In order to avoid the strict laws of censorship in force in all public places at the time, he turned a room of his home, Rutland House, into a private theatre where his works, and those of other writers considered seditious, could be performed.

Moreover, reactionary censorship laws prevented production of Les Huguenots in Berlin, ( and indeed in many other cities of Germany ).

As Minister it was Lenihan who repealed Ireland's notorious censorship laws.

Whether imposed externally, by virtue of monopoly franchises or censorship laws, or whether imposed voluntarily by actors, directors, or producers, these restraints have taxed the creative minds of the theatre to tackle the challenges of working with and around them.

With censorship laws prohibiting genitals from being seen but otherwise free to express anything, these movies quickly diversified to fill all genres, including rape and bondage.

From the 1960s to the late 1980s, ambiguous censorship laws resulted in hundreds of cases regarding erotica and pornography.

The Admiralty, upon receiving Herbert's report, immediately ordered its suppression, but the strict censorship imposed on the event failed when Americans who had witnessed the incident from Nicosians lifeboats spoke to newspaper reporters after their return to the United States.

For example, he believed ( as most Romans ) that his ancestor Appius Claudius Caecus had used the censorship to introduce the letter " R " and so used his own term to introduce his new letters.

There was extensive censorship in England and many war novels had been banned or burned as a result.

The Christian censorship of the Jewish Talmud in the aftermath of the Disputation of Barcelona and during the Spanish Inquisition and Roman Inquisition, let the term spread within the Jewish classical texts, since the church censors replaced terms like Minim (" sectarians ", coined on the Christians ) with the term Epikorsim or Epicursim, meaning heretics, since the church had heavily persecuted heretics at that time.

In 1956 the FDA had moved for the burning of William Reich's books and research materials, which is seen as one of the worst examples of censorship in U. S. history.

His own explanation was that the rise of the " puritan middle class ," who had stricter morals than the aristocracy, tightened the rules of censorship in the 19th century.

In addition to serious explorations of the Soviet past and present situation relaxation of censorship resulted in an explosion of popular culture including popular Western literature and films and books on astrology, religion, and flying saucers, in short, anything official Soviet publishers had not deemed worth publishing.

Based on a play by Victor Hugo ( Le roi s ' amuse ), the libretto had to undergo substantial revisions in order to satisfy the epoch's censorship, and the composer was on the verge of giving it all up a number of times.

The film was completed in September 1931, but the censorship of the Hays Code prevented it from being released as Hawks and Hughes had originally intended, and the two men fought the Hays Office ( and made compromises ) for over a year until the film was released in 1932, after such other pivotal early gangster films as The Public Enemy and Little Caesar.

Like Robinson he had himself delivered liberal policy reform ( abolished censorship in the 1960s, for example ), and he was seen as a near certainty to win the presidency.

The censorship administered under the Licensing Act led to public protest ; as the act had to be renewed at two-year intervals, authors and others sought to prevent its reauthorisation.

The old method of censorship had been limited by the Second Statute of Repeal, and with Mary's increasing unpopularity the existing system was unable to cope with the number of critical works being printed.

With this, " the Lords ' decision heralded an end to a relationship that had developed throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries between the State and the Company of Stationers ", ending both nascent publishers ' copyright and the existing system of censorship.

It had ended the Pisan schism, ratified the censorship of books introduced by Alexander VI and imposed tithes for a war against the Turks.

* Freedom of the press is granted by the British government which had already relaxed censorship following the Bill of Rights in 1689.

Journalists who had boycotted and stopped writing called for harsh treatment of the newspapers that submitted to German censorship.

Many years after, when the censorship commission had been abolished, the film reappeared ( because Bertolucci had kept a clandestine copy ) and was projected in a slightly censored version.

She disagreed with amendments made to the script because of censorship restrictions and found that many of the aspects of the role that had initially appealed to her had been cut.

He relaxed censorship on political views as he believed that newspapers had the right to criticize political figures – " The right to insult members of the government is inviolable ".

It was a highly controversial subject and Hugo himself had already had trouble with censorship in France, which had banned productions of his play after its first performance nearly twenty years earlier ( and would continue to ban it for another thirty years ).