Evanston Now | Viewpoint: Censorship at the library Evanston Now On Friday June 2, the Evanston Public Library held a hearing that may lead to the firing of librarian Lesley Williams this week. Her alleged crime? Posting a message on her personal Facebook page criticizing the library's efforts at racial equity. This ... |
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Tory Home Secretary Amber Rudd has been accused of "shutting down" a rival raising questions about the Governments arms deals with Saudi Arabia during an election hustings.
Independent candidate Nicholas Wilson cried "censorship!" after Ms Rudd was seen passing a note to the chair of the debate in Rye, East Sussex.
Moments later, the chairman rang a bell and ordered Mr Wilson to end his speech.
Asked by the Mirror if he believed Ms Rudd's note was directly responsible for the cutoff he said: "Without a doubt."
Before he was interrupted, Mr Wilson was criticising Theresa May selling arms to Saudi Arabia.
He said: Saudi Arabia are the country responsible for IS and they support IS. We supply arms to Saudi Arabia
But the chairman said he had strayed from the topic of the question, which was the Manchester terror attack.
Am I being censored? he said, before claiming Ms Rudd was planning to abolish the independent Serious Fraud Office so that she could be in charge of prosecutions of financial institutions through the National Crime Agency.
The chairman approached him, gesturing for him to hand over his microphone and saying this was the kind of personal attack I wanted to avoid.
But Wilson, who led a successful campaign against HSBC to get compensation for customers hit with excessive credit card charges, said: This is censorship. I have suffered censorship for 10 years. People dont know about these things because of censorship.
He eventually gave up his microphone.
Later he posted the clip on YouTube under the comment "Amber Rudd shuts down my speech about arms sales to Saudi Arabia".
It has been viewed more than 300,000 times.
We asked the Conservative Party what Amber Rudd wrote on her note.
Nineteen hours later, a spokesman replied: "The chair decided to move it on."
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Over onthe home page, Tiana Lowe tells the tale of the campus craziness at the Evergreen State College of Washington. Id encourage you to read the entire piece, but the basics are just as absurd as weve come to expect. Radical activists wanted to turn the schools traditional Day of Absence (a day where black students leave campus) into effectively a day of exclusion, demanding that white students and professors leave instead. Bret Weinstein, a progressive biology professor, wrote a polite and thoughtful letter objecting, and the response? Well, the response was insane. Heres Tiana describing what happened next:
Within days, vitriolic student mobs took over Weinsteins classroom, screaming at him, calling him a racist, and demanding his resignation. When videos of the mobs made it to YouTube, the protesters demanded that the videos be taken down. Rather than ignoring the disruption and demands of students including the immediate disarming of police services and mandatory sensitivity and cultural competency training for faculty, staff, administrators, and student employees Evergreens president, George Bridges, actively enabled them, excusing protesters from homework, instituting said mandatory sensitivity training for all college employees, creating a new equity center, and launching an extensive forensic investigation to seek criminal charges against whoever posted the videos to YouTube. While local police chief Stacy Brown told Weinstein to remain off campus as law enforcement could not guarantee his safety, Bridges lauded the protesters passion and courage.
By the way, if you want to read the full list of the mobs demands, here they are:
We demand for the coordinator of the Trans & Queer Center to be permanently hired full time. Currently, they are temporarily hired and their contract ends in June.
We demand the creation of a permanent position that will support undocumented students. This position will have a budget that will create scholarships, housing, and protections.
We demand that the video created for Day of Absence and Day of Presence that was stolen by white supremacists and edited to expose and ridicule the students and staff be taken down by the administration this Friday.
We demand Bret Weinstein be suspended immediately without pay but all students receive full credit.
We demand an official statement on each of these demands from George Bridges that is divided up into 10 sections on this Friday May 26th, 2017.
We demand that no changes to The Student Code of Conduct be made without democratic student consent.
We demand that Officer Timothy ODell be fired and suspended without pay while an investigation takes place.
We demand the immediate firing of Andrea Seabert Olsen, the Assistant to the VP for Student Conduct, from all Evergreen State College positions.
We demand the immediate disarming of Police Services and no expansion of police facilities or services at any point in the future.
We demand mandatory sensitivity and cultural competency training for faculty, staff, administrators, and student employees.
We demand the creation of an Equity Center
We demand for the coordinator of the Trans & Queer Center to be permanently hired full time.
We demand the creation of a position that will support undocumented students.
Not to be outdone, a coalition of dozens of faculty and staff have signed their own letter, and its one of the most craven academic documents Ive ever read. It begins:
We acknowledge that all of us who have power within the institution share responsibility for the racist actions of others. Furthermore, those of us who are white bear a particularly large share of that responsibility.
We acknowledge that we have a great deal of work to do in order to honor and live up to the demands made by student leaders during last weeks protests.
And lest you have any doubt about where these folks stand on the First Amendment, they commit themselves to:
Demonstrate accountability by pursuing a disciplinary investigation against Bret Weinstein according to guidelines in the Social Contract and Faculty Handbook. Weinstein has endangered faculty, staff, and students, making them targets of white supremacist backlash by promulgating misinformation in public emails, on national television, in news outlets, and on social media.
This is legally indefensible, of course, and morally repugnant. There is no effort to engage with Weinsteins ideas andno acknowledgment of the threats that have driven him off campus. Weinstein has shown unusual courage in continuing to speak out against threats and intimidation, but how long can he endure? How long can any reasonable person persevere in the face of similar threats and demands? Evergreen has reportedly faced serious threats of violence after the media covered Weinsteins story, but Weinstein is in no way responsible for these threats. Will his radical colleagues apply this standard to their ideological friends? Do they hold them responsible for the threats that drove Weinstein off campus? Of course not.
Instead, this is exactly how even peaceful professors and protesters actively collaborate with the violent fringe. Rather than unequivocally standing up for the fundamental liberties of a colleague while condemning all threats of violence, they blame him for the misdeeds of others, ignore the misconduct of their allies, and then urge their universityto violate the law. Ive said it before, and Ill say it again. Unless and until campus administrators have the courage to use the law to protect liberty, theyll reward violence, increase campus volatility, and set the stage for a truly ugly (and perhaps deadly) incident.
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NewsBusters (blog) | 'It's Censorship!' Bloom, Griffin Waste Time Whining About Griffin Losing CNN Job NewsBusters (blog) It's so hurtful to me, a bawling Griffin told a reporter when asked what she thought of CNN firing her. Bloom also stepped in to lash out at the network: It's censorship is what it is. I'll say it more bluntly. She's worked there for 10 years. It was ... Former Trump Spokeswoman Cries Censorship Because She Has No Idea How Twitter Works Comic Kathy Griffin - can't stand her, but defend her I must Horrific image of Trump was wrong; so were those of Obama |
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It promises to be the mother of all censorship meetings. On Tuesday evening at the Oberoi Trident Towers in Mumbai, Rajyavardhan Rathore has invited film producers from all across India for a conference on the proposed amendment in the censor certification guidelines.
Says a source, Mr Rathore has invited producers from every state, from Bengal to Karnataka, and from Mumbai to Chennai to discuss the finer points in the reports on censorship amendments suggested by the Shyam Benegal committee and Justice Mudgals report. Every opinion would be given equal weightage. The idea is to take into confidence the requirements of every region before changes are brought into censorship rules.
The source promises an early and radical change in censorship rules.We may soon have entirely new censorship guidelines or for all we know the Central Board Of Film Certification (CBFC) as we know it may cease to exist.It will all depend on what producers feel about censorship rules, says a source close to the I & B ministry.