A Brief History of Censorship

I found this brief, but informative article about censorship. Reading it makes me glad that I live in the U.S. where censorship isn't as accepted as it once was (and still is in other countries).

And yet, censorship is still alive and well here in the United States. At Arizona State University, some artists' works were pulled from the "Democracy in America" exhibition because they criticized George W. Bush, and because these works were not counter-balanced by works criticizing John Kerry. Sounds a little ridiculous to me. Also check out the post a little farther down the page about the art gallery owner in California. I think that the people who would vandalize her gallery and threaten the lives of her and her children are the anti-Americans, unless America has come to stand for mindless oppression and brutality. The last time I checked, the First Amendment was still in effect, and that's about as American as you can get.