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...Obama’s memo will encourage the spirit of free debate and may help lead to the greater dissemination of apolitical findings. But, more importantly, it promises that policymakers will accept and grapple with scientific evidence, not ignore or censor it when it clashes with the president’s policies. Obama has already made good on this promise by issuing a memorandum that will restore a provision of the Endangered Species Act that requires federal agencies to consult the Fish and Wildlife Service before taking action on endangered species. Hopefully, the stem cell decision will be seen...
...asking large groups of people to perform some task in an open forum. Internet access has become more than just a technical issue in recent years, as the Web has become a portal for political dissent and information dissemination that many governments fear might foment unrest. Authoritarian governments frequently censor Internet access, restricting access to pro-democracy sites and sites for organizations documenting human rights violations. China, for instance, denies access to web pages describing the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 and Falun Gong, an outlawed religious group. According to Law School Professor Jonathan L. Zittrain, who conceived...
...they aren't a threat to the power structure. Disaffected Iranians either leave the country or concentrate on preserving their own pockets of freedom rather than struggle against the Islamic system. People know the red lines: women know the dress codes they can tweak; artists and writers self-censor or approach sensitive subjects obliquely. "We don't want another revolution. We don't want regime change," says the owner of a contemporary-art gallery in Tehran. "We are a gentle people...
...passengers who are over 90 or are seriously ill, and to tell them there is no God seems a bit insensitive when God is probably all they have left in the world." Dawkins believes that's neither here nor there. "It's not the business of a driver to censor the advertisements that go on his bus. It's his job to drive...
...chief of the Administration Agency for Radio, Television and Electronics Information at the Ministry of Information and Communications defends the new regulations. "Every country has its own law and all activities must follow its laws in order to guarantee the social benefits," Luu says. It "does not mean to censor blogs, but to help and to educate the bloggers to maintain a healthy way of using Internet for their benefits...