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Censorship
The freedom to read is essential to the democratic way of life. But today, that
freedom is under attack. Private groups and public authorities everywhere are
working to remove both books and periodicals from sale, to exclude certain books
from public schools, to censor and silence magazines and newspapers, and ....
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.... suggests that it is a segment that didn't worry people very much
till relatively recently.
Though censorship was known in english law quite early on, it wasn't for
obscenity but for heresy and sedition."Undue" exploitation of sex" is what
criminal law in Canada prohibits. This is how criminal law defines obscenity.
But it is rather vague. It doesn't differentiate between "ordinary obscenity"
and "hard-core pornography." The first denoting the ordinary run of "girlie
magazines and the second denoting pictures , literature and so on that deal with
rape, sadism, masochis ....
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