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There are others who believe that violent representation is more
Censorship is a complex issue often creating unlikely political allies.
Most people think of sexuality when they hear the word censorship,
and censoring sex has certainly been an obsession in the US. The rise
of the World Wide Web has raised the issue once more, as pornography
has become far more widely available than ever before. in need of censorship than sex. Some of these are the same folks
who wish to control sexual representations, some are of a quite
different political bend.
Beyond these there is another kind of censorship, one far less
talked about. It is represented by the Benetton parody ad on this
page. One might call it censorship by corporate power - all the
ways in which a more complicated and diverse flow of information
is stifled by the profit motive that is the bottom line of corporate
media. The sites below raise questions about all these kinds of
censorship, among others.
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