Just as we saw China talking about the idea of social credit scores – post something nice about the government on social media and you get extra points, and you can redeem them getting your visa to go on a trip abroad or whatever, well Canada comes out after that with carrot awards – hey guys, if you take your flu shots then hey you can get some points … The UK floating the idea of filters … This is the future of the internet. The Corbett Report: Employees Getting Microchipped, James Corbett online July 2017
The social media purge. The crackdown. Obviously the largest name, the big example, that everyone will point to is of course Alex Jones. The Corbett Report, Problem Reaction Solution: Internet Censorship Edition, James Corbett online 19.07
The false dichotomy … underlying assumption … the public’s fear is now Twitter and Facebook … We have got to get government in to regulate … It’s factually wrong. ibid.
Kabuki plays featuring loyal samurai were banned or heavily censored; as were books or films about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; satirical cartoons of [General] MacArthur and mention of occupation censorship were strictly forbidden. Princes of the Yen: Central Banks and the Transformation of the Economy, 2014
The Life of Brian: The film was banned in countries around the world. Python at 50: Silly Talks & Holy Grails, BBC 2019
Donald McGill: McGill took a most proper part of daily British life – the postcard – and turned it rude. Rude Britannia II: Presents Bawdy Songs & Lewd Photographs, BBC 2010
During a nationwide ‘back to basics’ campaign by the government of Winston Churchill [cf. maiden Parliament speech] McGill was investigated for obscenity. ibid.
The seventy-nine-year-old artist pleaded guilty to obscenity and was fined £50. Thousands of his cards were then ordered to be destroyed. ibid.
Banned from television Manning became the new alternative comedy that went underground. Rude Britannia 3/3: You’ve Never Had It So Rude, BBC 2010
I’m going to do damage with it. I’ll make sure that my work gets out. That no publisher will ever be able to tell me to take things out. Because I’ll put it out myself. The more money I earn, the less they can stop me. Where I come from it’s called fuck you money because I don’t have to take an ounce of shit from anybody. Michael Moore
In 1963 one woman went to war with the sexual revolution. Armed with just a typewriter, she launched her crusade. She amassed hundreds of thousands of followers. And fought a thirty year battle against the permissive society. The original culture warrior. But was her uprising in vain? Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story, captions, BBC 2022
In 1960 Mary Whitehouse was a teacher at Madeley Secondary Modern in Telford. By the 1960s Mary’s Britain was under threat. In 1964 the campaign to ‘Clean Up TV’ was born. ibid.
She genuinely thought that left-wing subversives were trying to destroy the family and our faith in Jesus in order to usher in communist rule in England. ibid. historian
I was left with the dubious honour of being the only author to have a book publicly burnt on television. ibid. Whitehouse
By 1970 the permissive society was in fully swing and Mary’s battleground moved beyond the BBC. ibid. caption
What she embraces is a political agenda that protects women from that danger, the danger of desire, but lashes them to a kind of patriarchal dead-zone, as if the dead zone is safe. Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story II, woman
The first real bit of legislation she helped with was the Protection of Children Act in 1978. There were things in that Act that the fact they were not covered by law is absolutely stunning now. ibid. biographer
We are now facing electronic corruption on a gigantic scale. It’s like a plague. ibid. Whitehouse
Men’s entitlement to women’s bodies: what she doesn’t do with that is to challenge the patriarchal culture that produces pornography. ibid. woman
‘We in America are the best entertained and least informed society in the world. Project Censored: The Movie, Neil Postman, 2013
In 2007 two fathers from California were inspired to make a film that explores why today’s corporate media is deliberately dividing the nation. ibid.
What will it take to end the reign of corporate media’s junk food news? ibid.
Vested interests? Or do the American people prefer the sensationalistic junk food news? ibid.
‘Deliberate decisions are made to withhold information from the people.’ ibid. Cynthia McKinney
News abuse … A more subtle form of news bias: stories that have some legitimate newsworthy quality, unlike their junk food counterparts, but where the way the story is presented is so spun or so distorted that the ultimate point of the story gets lost, and this too is a form of propaganda. ibid.
For the past 35 years Project Censored has been publishing the top censored stories that have deliberately and systematically withheld from the American public. ibid.
We have a concentrated top-down corporate media system that’s primarily orientated to make money and provide entertainment, and is increasingly a propaganda machine for the military-media-industrial complex. ibid.