China's Megatrends by John Naisbitt

Author:John Naisbitt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

Censorship Is Not a Chinese Invention

In the United States of America, said to be the freest country in the world, James Joyce’s Ulysses was confiscated 1918 by the U.S. Post Office. It was published again in 1961, and again confiscated. Not until 1966 was the censorship ended by the Supreme Court. In 1938 Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer was banned from being imported, and that embargo was not lifted until 1961. Over the years, many American states have banned titles from libraries and schools.

The most vigorous period of persecuting different thinking was the early 1950s, the era of Senator Joseph McCarthy, the Hollywood blacklist, and hearings conducted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Charlie Chaplin, Leonard Bernstein, Orson Welles, and Arthur Miller—to name just a few famous people—were called before the U.S. Congress to be questioned about their political views and activities. Many people were blacklisted, and a number of tenured university professors were fired because of their political views.

The name John Naisbitt also appeared, most publicly when Walter Winchell, in his popular Sunday night radio news commentary, warned the students of America against John Naisbitt, the student body president of the University of Utah, who was leading a student campaign to discredit Senator McCarthy, whom Winchell supported. John had started an organization called American University Students for Academic Freedom. This national organization was wholly devoted to fighting for the freedom of speech, and that meant freedom of speech for Senator McCarthy as well as those who opposed him.

All this took place almost 200 years after the American modern democracy was born.

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