Logopia
20-08-2007, 18:36
Honored Colleagues
I come to you seeking your expertise in UN legislative matters. Me and my aides have spent hours in the UN library and unfortunately haven’t been able to answer our questions.
The Logopian Society for Decency (LSD) has been working on a draft proposal for the improvement of moral decency. However, a very important part of that proposal would depend on at least some forms censorship (of movies, television, etc) being legal in UN member states. We believe that might not be the case.
Resolution “The Universal Bill of Rights” says its second article:
All human beings have the right to express themselves through speech and through the media without any interference.
Does this make any form of censorship illegal?
Does this mean that governments can’t require theater operators to deny entrance to minors to certain movies, or to require certain movies to be edited or showed only at certain times when they are broadcasted in television or otherwise publicly exhibited?
Would the regulation of the broadcast, distribution, exhibition and sale of movies, audio, or t.v. shows constitute “interference” and as thus be illegal?
Is there any “wiggle room” in the interpretation of “interference” as to allow certain (if limited) forms of censorship?
As always, the Logopian Delegation (and I personally) appreciates your valuable insight.
Iris Fairchild
Logopian Ambassador to the U.N.
I come to you seeking your expertise in UN legislative matters. Me and my aides have spent hours in the UN library and unfortunately haven’t been able to answer our questions.
The Logopian Society for Decency (LSD) has been working on a draft proposal for the improvement of moral decency. However, a very important part of that proposal would depend on at least some forms censorship (of movies, television, etc) being legal in UN member states. We believe that might not be the case.
Resolution “The Universal Bill of Rights” says its second article:
All human beings have the right to express themselves through speech and through the media without any interference.
Does this make any form of censorship illegal?
Does this mean that governments can’t require theater operators to deny entrance to minors to certain movies, or to require certain movies to be edited or showed only at certain times when they are broadcasted in television or otherwise publicly exhibited?
Would the regulation of the broadcast, distribution, exhibition and sale of movies, audio, or t.v. shows constitute “interference” and as thus be illegal?
Is there any “wiggle room” in the interpretation of “interference” as to allow certain (if limited) forms of censorship?
As always, the Logopian Delegation (and I personally) appreciates your valuable insight.
Iris Fairchild
Logopian Ambassador to the U.N.