Course
Description
Instructor
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:
- cyclical
- suppression,
banning, expurgation, or editing by
- an individual,
institution, group or government that
- enforces
or influences its decision against
- the
publication of any
- written
or pictorial materials which "3" deems
- destructive
to
- family
values, national security and other constitutionally protected speech
and which "3" deems so
- obscene
or pornographic as to be
- "utterly
without redeeming social value", as determined by
- "comtemporary
community standards."
Query:
Does this definition affect Cyberporn on the Internet?
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