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This page provides a perspective on online censorship
by highlighting some incidents and enactments.
1497 Savonarola promotes 'bonfire of vanities' in Florence
1558 'fig leaves' added to Michelangelo's Last Judgement
1573 Veronese ordered to 'correct' his Last Supper
1644 Milton's Areopagitica
1735 Zenger trial in N America
1787 George III's Royal Proclamation 'For the Encouragement
of Piety and Virtue, and for the Preventing and Punishing
of Vice, Profaneness and Immorality', including suppression
of all 'loose and licentious Prints, Books, and Publications,
dispersing Poison to the minds of the Young and Unwary
and to Punish the Publishers and Vendors thereof'
1795 Rex v Curl (UK)
1802 Society for the Suppression of Vice (UK)
1815 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania vs. Sharpless and
Others (US)
1819 'Six Acts' in England (inc Newspaper & Stamp
Duties Act)
1821 Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
banned in US as likely to "debauch and corrupt, and
to raise and create in minds inordinate and lustful desires,
knowingly, unlawfully, wickedly, maliciously, and scandalously"
1824 daily newspaper censorship ceases in New South Wales
1832 Daumier punished for caricature of Louis-Philippe
by six months in prison
1857 condemnation of The Confessional Unmasked: Shewing
the Depravity of the Romanish Priesthood, the Iniquity
of the Confessional, and the Questions Put to Females
in Confession
1857 Obscene Publications Act 1857 in UK
1868 Hicklin case in UK
1873 New York Society for the Suppression of Vice founded
1873 Comstock Act in US
1878 New England Society for the Suppression of Vice formed
1891 NE SSV renamed New England Watch & Ward Society
1898 Klimt's Vienna Sezession 'Minotaur' poster emasculated
1910 International Agreement for the Suppression of
the Circulation of Obscene Publications
1918 UK ban on reproduction of CR Nevinson's Paths
of Glory
1919 Abrams v. United States
1923 International Convention for the Suppression of
and Traffic in Obscene Publications
1926 'Hatrack incident' sees arrest of H.L. Mencken for
selling copy of American Mercury
1930 US Motion Picture Production Code
1933 Rockefeller Center mural by Diego Rivera destroyed
after featuring image of Lenin
1933 US District Court declares that Joyce's Ulysses
is not obscen - "I do not detect anywhere the leer
of the sensualist"
1934 Cadmus' The Fleet's In! withdrawn from PWAP
exhibition at Corcoran Gallery in Washington
1938
Entartete Kunst exhibition in Munich and further purging
of official collections in Germany
1946 Australia bans Christina Stead's Letty Fox, Her
Luck
1954 McGill fined in UK over 'saucy' postcards
1957 Roth v. United States (US)
1961 suppression of Siqueiros murals in Mexico City
1964 Warhol's Thirteen Most Wanted Men mural
at New York World's Fair painted over
1964 New York Times v. Sullivan (US)
1969 Roth's Portnoy's Complaint
1969 Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC (US)
1973 Miller v. California (US)
1973 Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton (US)
1973 Kaplan v. California (US)
1973 United States v. 12 200-ft. Reels of Super 8mm Film
(US)
1973 United States v. Orito (US)
1974 Gertz v. Welch (US)
1988 Hustler v. Falwell (US)
1989 Texas v. Johnson (US)
1989 Corcoran Gallery cancels Mapplethorpe exhibition
1997 'Piss Christ' controversy at National Gallery of
Victoria
1997 Reno v. ACLU (US)
2001 Taliban destroys Bamiyan sculptures in Afghanistan
2006 US District Judge bars prosecutors from enforcing
Child Online Protection Act as overly broad
2007 Australian government calls for ISP-level filtering
of all content
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