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Teacher unions recognize the threat websites like RateMyTeachers pose to their monopoly and use “cyber-bullying” as an excuse to enact censorship. The fact is, not all teachers are created equal and RateMyTeachers is making this plainly obvious to anyone with an interest in the system (parents, students, administrators, taxpayers). Despite any rhetoric to the contrary, teacher unions by their very nature view every teacher as a cog in a great big education machine. Teacher contracts are negotiated so that every teacher, good or bad, is treated the same. Teachers who opt out of paying union dues are punished even though they are required by law to accept the union negotiated contracts. Tenure tracks ensure that horrible teachers will waste students’ time and taxpayers’ money; and in some cases, a bad teacher can seriously harm the education and mental development of a child.
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The press censorship situation in Nepal looks to being taking a toll on radio jobs, rediff.com reports Tuesday. According to a Kathmandu Post story, the new guidelines set forth that disallow any news and information reporting on the air have put approximately 1,000 journalism jobs in jeopardy
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Self-censorship is ... a growing trend in Thailand. In February 2007, Chula Book Centre, bookstore of Chulalongkorn University, refused to carry the book The September 19th Coup: A Coup for a Democratic Regime Under the Constitutional Monarchy, an anthology critical of Thailand's 2006 military coup d'etat written in Thai by leading intellectuals and academics, including Nidhi Eoseewong, Somsak Jeamtheerasakul (whose own book, History Just Viewed [2001], is similarly banned), Thongchai Winichakul and Ajarn Sulak. A few Thai language bookstores did sell the book, however, and reported brisk sales. Later in the month, Chula Book Centre and CU Books reneged on their agreement to both sell and distribute A Coup for the Rich primarily because some of the sources quoted were from The King Never Smiles. The book was written by Dr. Giles Ji Ungpakorn, professor at Chula's Faculty of Political Science. On March 6, Thammasat University Bookstore followed suit in refusing to sell the book even though it has not been officially banned, although the university's rector overturned that decision and the book is now for sale at the university bookstore.
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Filter Players This is a linked page to content providers in the Censorship/Free Speech software business. If you go through these hyperlinked logo's you will get a comprehensive overview. Includes those who filter and those who watch.
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Adult cartoon South Park has highlighted the problems with television censorship ever since it first hit screens back in 1998. The colourful world of sleepy Colorado mountain town, South Park, is created using bold lines, simple two-dimensional shapes and primary colours. It centres around the exploits of four 8 year old boys who go to school, hang out at bus stops and on each others' sofas, and indulge in innocent childhood pastimes like ice-skating. And swearing like total sewer mouths. Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone use their four unlikely heroes to launch a range of attacks against the sacred cows of popular culture - political correctness, Steven Spielberg, Disney movies, transformer toys, reality TV, the Sundance Film Festival and of course, censorship, particularly when it applies to the deletion of expletives.
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