Flag Desecration
Iranian Censorship
Banned Books Week
Google Misusing Data Privacy
NSP Collecting Personal Info on Internet Sources
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A student at McCracken County High School in Paducah, Kentucky recreated a 1989 piece by Dread Scott the involved the American flag.
Why has a part of a college credit art history class been cancelled?
100
Common practice in the Middle East. Often done by hand.
What is censorship?
100
Malaysia, Asia, Malaysian bookstores, etc.
Where is censorship common?
100
France; up to 300, 000 euros ($402,180)
What country is sanctioning Google? For how much?
100
National Security Agency
What is the NSA?
200
A montage of images of flag-draped coffins and South Korean students burning US flags, a response book, and a flag laid on the ground.
What does the Dread Scott recreation piece feature?
200
Women. Packaging for products, pictures, magazines, etc.
What is typically censored? Where can this censorship be found?
200
Printed work such as books, magazines, novels, etc.
In what works can censorship be found in these countries?
200
France's National Commission on Computing and Freedom.
What is CNIL?
200
a "worldwide surveillance net that allows it to monitor what all human beings are doing."
What does the NSA hope to create? (In Glenn Greenwood's opinion)
300
For about 30 minutes, it was on display in the school hallway.
How long was the restaging on display before being dismantled?
300
The censor's method and the degree to which they are obvious.
How is censorship different from country to country?
300
Books and other sources of information were commonly crossed out with black marker to censor inappropriate information. Now, many books remain uncensored due to more freedom brought on by economic growth.
How has censorship changed in Malaysia?
300
Specifying to users what it uses personal data for and how long it's held.
What changes were requested that Google makes?
300
the intelligence agencies work "within the constraints of the law to collect, analyze and understand information related to potential threats to our national security."
How do the intelligence agencies work?
400
American soldiers raised it in triumph over Iwo Jima at the end of the second world war, while Vietnam war protesters burned it in disgust at the military actions of the US government. More recently, the flag is reverentially draped on the coffins of US soldiers killed fighting America's increasingly unpopular wars.
How are some ways the flag is emotionally loaded?
400
“the total mundane, normality of it,” Toledano says, “When it happens on a daily basis and people don’t even pay attention, that’s when it’s most horrifying because it means nothing anymore. The idea that women don’t exist in that way means nothing.”
What is the frightening thing about this method? (According to Toledano, the artist)
400
How to educate themselves, how to dress, where to live, and free speech. (More so than previous speech allowed.)
What freedoms can people in Malaysia enjoy?
400
It adds new pressure on Google, which is smarting from criticism over providing customer data to the U.S. government as part of its fight against foreign terrorists.
How does this sanction affect Google?
400
The electronic communications of non-U.S. citizens is often focused on.
What is said to be focused on by the intelligence community?
500
Those who threaten a teacher because of a fetish over a piece of cloth appear to have no problem trampling all over the very principle of freedom the flag is supposed to symbolize. There is an added pressure on schools and teachers to censor themselves and the curriculum. This contradicts with the freedom of speech.
How does the dismantling of the display contradict some of our freedoms? How is it a contradiction?
500
They compel you to look at a person you can’t see, call that into question again. “It’s a different kind of portrait, a portrait of an ideology,” he says, “a particular point in history.”
What is the significance of Toledano's portraits?
500
The "F" word, women's bodies, sexuality, S&M, etc.
What is thought of to be inappropriate in these countries? (And is often censored)
500
Spain, Germany, Britain, Italy, and the Netherlands.
Where else are similar actions underway?
500
Microsoft, Google, Apple, and other leading U.S. tech companies.
What companies "do not give the government direct access to their servers, but do comply with legally binding orders?
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