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There is explicit music, nonexplicit music, and censored music. With considering our First Amendment, there should just be "music" without out any explicatory subtypes. This book looks at the censorship in the music industry from the legal perspective as well as the moral perspective. This book allows for censorship enthusiasts and anticensorship activist to rethink censorship and ask if we really need it afflicting America's music industry.

A look inside the fairness doctrine and its impact on politics and free speech in American talk radio.

The modern-day media has warped our sense of reality, affecting every aspect of our lives and the way we perceptive the truth. Day in and day out, we are being sold lies because media effectively turns fiction into fact. After 50 years of the status quo, this book takes a deeper look at the secrets behind fraudulent news and how it has upended nearly every aspect of the public and the private lives of individuals, as well as the vital institutions in America. This book takes you into the reality of the media’s war on education, COVID tyranny, election fraud, and more.

WikiLeaks, a platform for disclosing information, has managed to produce more scoops in the last three years than the Washington Post has in the last 30: the gruesome video of Iraqi civilians and journalists being murdered by members of the US military; the true circumstances surrounding the bombing of two hijacked petrol-tankers in Kunduz, Afghanistan; the plundering of the Icelandic bank Kaupthing; the planning documents for the Duisburg Love Parade, and many more.

Guardrails starts with False Prophets, a short treatise explains how conspiracy theories are used to reinforce the big deceptions. It describes how free-thinkers are routinely brought back into the paddock. Many well-intentioned truthers have unwittingly helped to bury the very truth. And just what is the truth buried by the conspiracy theories? Simple. The truth is, the media is not reporting factual events to inform you; they are reporting stories to conform you.

Congress and the Constitution are under attack all around the world. Muzzled and muffled are the voices of virtue and reason under a medical face mask. All that remains is confusion, chaos, and COVID.

Judith Sevinç Basad empört sich - und stemmt sich vehement gegen die sich aufgeklärt wähnende Meinungsmache, gegen Denkverbote und Unschärfen in den Argumenten einer selbsternannten kulturellen Elite. Ist es denn, genau betrachtet, wirklich so, dass die "Privilegierten" den sozialen Aufstieg von Migrantenkindern verhindern? Kann nur eine Frau wissen, wie man Politik für Frauen macht? Ist "MeToo" eine durchgängig lautere Bewegung? Ist es im Kampf gegen Rassismus mit der Entmachtung des "alten weißen Mannes" getan?

Die Meinungsfreiheit ist für eine freiheitliche Demokratie konstituierend. In Deutschland ist sie deshalb verfassungsrechtlich besonders geschützt. Trotzdem haben mehr als zwei Drittel der Deutschen das Gefühl, sie könnten ihre Meinung nicht frei äußern. Wie kommt das? Wolfgang Kubicki widmet sich der Frage, welche Fehler in Politik, Medien und Gesellschaft gemacht wurden, die zu diesem Vertrauensverlust führten und zeigt, wie wir zu einer neuen Diskurskultur finden.

Strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPP) involves lawsuits brought by individuals, corporations, groups, or politicians to curtail political activism and expression. An increasingly large part of the political landscape in Canada, they are often launched against those protesting, boycotting, or participating in some form of political activism.

Crimes Against History takes a global approach to the extreme forms of censorship to which history and historians have been subjected through the ages. The book opens by considering the varieties of censorship, from suppression, dismissal, and defamation to persecution and murder.

On May 7, 1945, journalist Edward Kennedy bypassed military censorship to be the first to break the news of the Nazi surrender executed in Reims, France. While, at the behest of Soviet leaders, Allied authorities prohibited release of the story, Kennedy stuck to his journalistic principles and refused to manage information he believed the world had a right to know. No action by an American correspondent during the war proved more controversial.

As any traveller knows, the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. So when journalist Frank Langfitt wanted to learn more about the real China, he started driving a cab - and discovered a country amid seismic political and economic change. The Chinese economic boom, with its impact on the environment, global trade and the tech industry, has been one of the most important stories of the 21st century.

When we think of the word "censorship", we imagine blacked out words and authoritarian political regimes of the past. However, censorship is alive and well today, and just as pervasive in capitalist democracies as repressive regimes. Offering a potted history of the phenomenon from the execution of Socrates in 399 BC to the latest in internet filtering, Petley provides an impassioned manifesto for freedom of speech. This is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in global media in the information age.

"Manipulating Minds" delves deep into the labyrinthine world of propaganda, unearthing its historical roots, diverse applications, and evolving techniques....+

Um mergulho no período mais sombrio da nossa história recente para revelar as políticas morais que fundamentam a repressão aos grupos LGBT.

As we find ourselves in a time of democratic decay all over the world, with relentless attempts to undermine truth and facts and unprecedented technological tools to spread disinformation and incite violence, brave journalism is needed more than ever. In The New Censorship esteemed academic, former journalist and activist Ayala Panievsky focuses on the unfortunate and unexpected mechanisms through which today's media has inadvertently amplified the anti-democratic movement that looms over our societies.

México es uno de los lugares más peligrosos en el mundo para ejercer el periodismo. En nuestro país, a muchos periodistas ocupados en la cobertura de temas locales se les hostiga, amedrenta y asesina por tomar postura sobre las injusticias que revelan, por señalar el abuso del poder y por dar voz a las inquietudes de su comunidad.

En uno de sus pocos momentos de sinceridad el fallecido líder del Partido Socialista de Venezuela, Aristóbulo Istúriz reconoció que si el régimen del teniente coronel (retirado) eliminaba el control cambiario, fuente de la boliburguesía sería derrumbado. Por analogía puede afirmarse que sin la tortura, la cual no es eventual sino política de Estado, la narcodictadura se desvanecería, pues perdería su base de sustentación si se toma en cuenta que este crimen de lesa humanidad tiene como ejecutores a militares y policías de bajo, mediano y alto rango y esbirros cubanos, sin ...

In this powerful and thought-provoking book, Unapologetically Woke, Dr. Marcus Mottley takes you on a transformative journey into the heart of political and social consciousness. This book is an unwavering rallying cry for a generation ready to confront the world’s most pressing social justice issues head-on. Dr. Mottley unflinchingly delves deep into the multifaceted complexities of being ‘woke’ in an unjust world, challenging readers to confront uncomfortable truths about ‘ism’s (racism, sexism, etc), privilege, oppression, and the worldwide perpetuation of systemic inequities. ...

Avery Caine’s new book, Canceled, attempts to grapple with today’s “cancel culture” and leftist politics. She makes some potent, yet poignant observations about the current state of the world. She notices that some of the behavior of the “grownups” seems bizarre, if not downright insane. In this book, she attempts to answer why this is so, and what is behind all of the apparent madness - especially the attempts to destroy America and its Constitution.