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Definition of censorship

A hermeneutical inquiry into the historical and contemporary occurrences of c*ns*rsh*p.

One target of censorship is defined by Section 146 of the U.S. Code, Title 18 (and covered in Sections 1462, 1464, 1465, and 2251.) "Every obscene, lewd, lasicivious, indecent, filthy or vile matter, thing or device or substance" - as well as ethnic vilifications, religious desecration, defamatory obloquies, advertisements soliciting homosexual liaisons, unprotected First Amendment pornography, sociologically offensive textbooks, governmental denials of access to official documents and military interdictions. (Similar wording is contained in state statutes governing obscenity and/or pornography).

The history and current activities of the public officials, courts, legislatures, organized religion, members of the clergy, ethnic groups, women's organizations, newspaper, magazines, television and radio stations, parental groups, civic organizations, textbook publishers, high school principals and college officials who are attempting to prohibit and punish offensive publications "utterly without redeeming social value"-as determined by comtemporary community standards. (See "Taxomony of Groups, Institutions and Individuals").

Instructor, Professor Chuck Stone

Email
,cstone@email.unc.edu
Phone Number

Office: 962-0547
Home: 929-0962

Address, 372 Carroll Hall
Office Hours
Wed. 10:00am - 11:30am, 2:00pm - 6:00pm
Fri: 10:00am - 12:00 pm

 

Censorship

(an operational definition of 11 elements as specified by Professor Stone) is:

  1. cyclical
  2. suppression, banning, expurgation, or editing by
  3. an individual, institution, group or government that
  4. enforces or influences its decision against
  5. the publication of any
  6. written or pictorial materials which "3" deems
  7. destructive to
  8. family values, national security and other constitutionally protected  speech and which "3" deems so
  9. obscene or pornographic as to be
  10. "utterly without redeeming social value", as determined by
  11. "comtemporary community standards."

Query: Does this definition affect Cyberporn on the Internet?