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This is a sample post. If your idea of censorship is an anonymous bureaucrat in a government office exercising prudish control over "offensive" art and speech, wake up and smell the conglomeration. Censorship today is more likely to be the result of a market force or a bandwidth monopoly than a line edit or the covering of a nude sculpture; and the current system of new technologies and economic arrangements has subtle, built-in mechanisms for suppressing free expression as powerful as any known in other centuries.

In Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression, Robert Atkins, the well-known author of the ArtSpeak books and, Svetlana Mintcheva, the head of the National Coalition Against Censorship's Art Program, bring together the latest thinking from art historians, cultural theorists, legal scholars, and psychoanalysts, as well as first-person accounts by artists and advocates, to give us a comprehensive understanding of censorship in a new century in which the media-fueled, culture war-scandal is just a diversion from the real action. Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, the arts may be a barometer for the state of free expression in U.S. society: the methods and mechanisms of censors outlined in this groundbreaking volume already affect each and every American.