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.

Consequently, when the elections went ahead the U. S. raised objections based upon political restrictions instituted by the State of Emergency ( e. g. censorship of the press, cancellation of habeas corpus, and the curtailing of free assembly ).

In late October 2005, he went on The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch and reiterated that he was leaving the U. S. and moving to Mexico due to, among other things, censorship.

Countless recordings were dumped at sea in the name of censorship, although in truth, rival U. S. companies did this in the spirit of underhanded competition, claiming that the rivals ' material was unfit for U. S. consumption.

Possibly the most famous example of censorship is in Chapter 22 and 23, which in the U. K. edition mentions that a Rory was an award for the Most Gratuitous Use of the Word ' Fuck ' in a Serious Screenplay.

" It has been cited as one of the worst examples of censorship in U. S. history.

On February 11, 1944, she was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for violation of the censorship statutes, conviction of which could result in a maximum penalty of ten years in prison and a $ 10, 000 fine.

On July 28, 1944, a plea bargain was made between the U. S. Attorney's Office and Dickinson in which the espionage and Trade Act indictments were dismissed and she pled guilty to the censorship violation and agreed to furnish information in her possession concerning Japanese intelligence activities.

A long series of Shakespeare adaptations were the first done of the Bard's works in the U. S. The 1915 feature The Battle Cry of Peace ( written and directed by Blackton ) was one of the great propaganda films of World War I. Ironically, after America declared war, the film was modified for re-release because it was seen as not being sufficiently pro-war, thus it also earns a place in the history of censorship.

He was relentlessly pursued by the U. S. Postal Inspection Service ( acting as a censorship agency then ) and local law enforcement ( who functioned in coordination with Postal Inspectors and the Catholic Church ).

The U. S. Supreme Court held that, except in rare cases, censorship is unconstitutional.

The 2007 documentary Indoctrinate U showed how some such censorship is often institutionalized into the university system.

William Harrison Hays, Sr. ( November 5, 1879 – March 7, 1954 ), namesake of the Hays Code for censorship of American films, was chairman of the Republican National Committee ( 1918 – 21 ) and U. S. Postmaster General ( 1921-22 ).

Ranked as one of the ten best statements on censorship, among his most quote worthy statements was in a dissenting opinion in Ginzburg v. United States, 383 U. S. 463 ( 1966 ): " Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

Roger Ebert in America and Member of Parliament Graham Bright in the U. K. led the charge to censor splatter films on home video with the film critic going after I Spit on Your Grave while the politician sponsored the Video Recordings Act, a system of censorship and certification for home video.

Such films were first seen in their modern form in the early 1920s, but they were popularized in the 60s and 70s with the general relaxing of censorship and cinematic taboos in the U. S. and Europe.

The " death knell " for censorship boards occurred in 1965 when the U. S. Supreme Court found the Maryland law making it a crime to exhibit a film without submitting it to the censorship board was unconstitutional.

The last major literary censorship battle in the U. S. was fought over Naked Lunch, which was banned in Boston in 1965.

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Produced and released during the American occupation in Japan, the Drunken Angel screenplay had to comply with a censorship board issued by the U. S. government.

However, his work was also highly critical of the domestic censorship and persecution of anti-war dissenters conducted by the U. S. government under the Espionage Act.

The Legion suffered a setback in 1952, when the U. S. Supreme Court heard the case Joseph Burstyn, Inc v. Wilson, 343 US 495 ( 1952 ) and ruled that sacrilege is not a valid ground for censorship in the United States.

We would establish no censorship.

They both measure literature by moral standards, and in their political writings both allow for censorship, but the differences between them are also significant.

Attempts at censorship always involve and reveal such complex and multiple individual reactions.

The equally ardent proponent of freedom from any kind of censorship may find the nude human form the `` natural, honest, free expression of man's spirit and the epitome of beauty and inspiration ''.

Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who must deal with matters of postal censorship, is himself author of a novel, Bartholf Street, albeit one he was obliged to publish at his own expense.

However, he became gravely ill during the 1918 flu pandemic and, since Spain was neutral and thus under no wartime censorship restrictions, his illness and subsequent recovery were covered worldwide, giving the false impression ( in the absence of real news from anywhere else ) that Spain was the most-affected area.

Germany's defeat in World War I, the fall of the German monarchy and the abolition of censorship under the new, liberal Weimar Republic allowed an upsurge of radical experimentation in all the arts, previously suppressed by the old regime.

The cosmic censorship hypothesis rules out the formation of such singularities, when they are created through the gravitational collapse of realistic matter.

After Joseph Stalin was acclaimed as leader of the CPSU in 1929, Pasternak became further disillusioned with the Party's tightening censorship of literature.

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.

Although contacts between Cubans and foreign visitors were made legal in 1997, extensive censorship has isolated it from the rest of the world.

Starting in the late 1940s, the national syndicates which distributed newspaper comic strips subjected them to very strict censorship.

Because historically comics have been considered mostly for children, they have a significantly more rigid censorship code than other media.

Stephan Pastis has lamented that the " unwritten " censorship code is still " stuck somewhere in the 1950s.

Some people, however, consider this tantamount to censorship.

He officially instituted the change during his censorship, but they did not survive his reign.

His censorship seems to have been based on those of his ancestors, particularly Appius Claudius Caecus, and he used the office to put into place many policies based on those of Republican times.

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.

The censors ' regulation of public morality is the origin of the modern meaning of the words " censor " and " censorship.

It was this authority of the Roman censors which eventually developed into the modern meaning of " censor " and " censorship "— i. e., officials who review published material and forbid the publication of material judged to be contrary to " public morality " as the term is interpreted in a given political and social environment.

On March 16, 1517, the Fifth Council of the Lateran closed its activities with a number of reform proposals ( on the selection of bishops, taxation, censorship and preaching ) but not on the major problems that confronted the Church in Germany and other parts of Europe.

Social conservatives ( in the first meaning of the word ) in many countries generally favor the pro-life position in the abortion controversy and oppose human embryonic stem cell research ( particularly if publicly funded ); oppose both eugenics and human enhancement ( transhumanism ) while supporting bioconservatism ; support a traditional definition of marriage as being one man and one woman ; view the nuclear family model as society's foundational unit ; oppose expansion of civil marriage and child adoption rights to couples in same-sex relationships ; promote public morality and traditional family values ; oppose atheism, especially militant atheism, secularism and the separation of church and state ; support the prohibition of drugs, prostitution, and euthanasia ; and support the censorship of pornography and what they consider to be obscenity or indecency.

The restrictions can be applied at various levels: a government can attempt to apply them nationwide ( see Internet censorship ), or they can, for example, be applied by an ISP to its clients, by an employer to its personnel, by a school to its students, by a library to its visitors, by a parent to a child's computer, or by an individual user to his or her own computer.

The motive is often to prevent persons from viewing content which the computer's owner ( s ) or other authorities may consider objectionable ; when imposed without the consent of the user, content control can constitute censorship.