Thursday, February 22, 2007

Can I . . . ?

"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by force," said Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech in 1972, "This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory."

Freedom of expression and its inextricable foe - censorship have been controversial for centuries. Considering the present jigsaw puzzle, Boyd Tonklin talks about examples of the moral, religious, and military censorships in his article published in The Independent newspaper.

Read the article.