Youth Voices Uncensored at the New York Film Academy Screening Room
Saturday, March 31st
1pm-4pm
New York Film Academy Screening Room
100 East 17th Street in Manhattan
N, Q, R, W, 4, 5, 6, L Trains to Union Square
Doonesbury “Abortion” Strips: Who Didn’t Run Them, and How to Contact
With regularity, editors at some papers choose not to run an episode of Garry Trudeau’s “Doonesbury” strip. The latest incident involved satirical commentary on state lawmakers requiring women to undergo invasive and medically unnecessary ultrasounds before abortions. A large number of papers did not run the episode, some ran a substitute “rerun” episode offered by Trudeau, and others shifted it [...]
PayPal Lifts Ban on Erotic Books
PayPal, the dominant processor of Internet payments, retracted its threat (Reuters) to close the accounts of online booksellers who sell works that include descriptions of rape, incest and bestiality.
Response to PayPal & Erotic Literature
Last week we sent a complaint to PayPal about its policy to shut down accounts of online merchants who sell erotica containing descriptions of rape, incest, and bestiality. Many other organizations have since registered their concerns over the policy. Today, PayPal posted a response on its blog. Unfortunately, it doesn't say much. It refers to "brand, regulatory and compliance risk [...]
Tell PayPal: Don’t Censor Books
PayPal, which plays a dominant role in processing online sales, has taken full advantage of the vast and open nature of the Internet for commercial purposes, but is now holding free speech hostage by clamping down on sales of certain types of erotica.
NCAC, ABFFE Protest PayPal Ban on Erotic Material
The company’s threat to close the accounts of online booksellers who sell works that include descriptions of rape, incest and bestiality would have a chilling effect on the sale of books that adults have a legal right to buy
Art Succeeds in Starting a Conversation, But Some Call for the Cancellation of the Project
Update: Lawrence, KS officials have banned the project, saying the proposed art installation would amount to animal cruelty. The Kansas code allows “with respect to farm animals” for “normal or accepted practices of animal husbandry, including the normal and accepted practices for the slaughter of such animals for food or by-products and the careful or thrifty management of one's herd [...]