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WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1988
PUBLIC SUPPORTS PRINCIPLE OF SOME CONTROL
* * *
HAVING A DEGREE SUPPORTED BY SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE
OF CONTROL ON THE COMMUNITY, TODAY COUNCIL
THE PRINCIPLE OF GOVERNMENT FILMS SHOWN TO THE PUBLIC IS GENERALLY THE HON STEPHEN (WEDNESDAY).
CHEONG
CHEONG SAID THE THAT MIGHT ON IN THE GROWTH AND
SUPPORTING THE FILM CENSORSHIP BILL 1988, MR PRACTICE OF FILM CENSORSHIP, INCLUDING CENSORING FILMS DAMAGE GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER COUNTRIES, HAD BEEN GOING HONG KONG FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS, AND HAD NOT IMPEDED DEVELOPMENT OF THE LOCAL FILM INDUSTRY,
HE SAID THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG
APPRECIATE
FEEL THAT
DID NOT CRY FOUL AT BRING ART, CULTURE OR TO BR HAD FILM CENSORSHIP
DEPRIVED OF THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENTERTAINED BY FILMS, NOR DID THEY DEPRIVED THEM OF THE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.
"THERE WERE NO MAJOR COMPLAINTS OVER THE PRACTICE OF FILMS, HE SAID.
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"ON THE
CONTRARY,
RECENT
CALLED
CENSORING
PUBLIC SENTIMENTS GOVERNMENT TO EXERCISE STRICTER CONTROL OVER PUBLICATIONS THAT AN EXCESSIVE DEGREE OF VIOLENCE AND OBSCENITY,
CALLED FOR
"IF THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG
ΤΟ BE LOGICAL PUBLISHED MATERIAL, THEN IT WOULD WOULD NOT CALL FOR LESS OR NO CONTROL ON FILMS.
THE CONCERNING
CONTROVERSIAL CLAUSE
H
ON THE DEPICT
STRICTER CONTROL
DEDUCE THAT THEY
ON
THE
WHICH EMPOWERED WHICH MIGHT DAMAGE GOOD ADMINISTRATION TO CONTINUE TO CENSOR FILMS
SOME PEOPLE HAD RELATIONS WITH OTHER NATIONS, MR CHEONG NOTED THAT
GIVE RISK TO A TRIED TO PROPAGATE A NOTION THAT THIS CLAUSE WOULD
EXPRESSION WOULD SITUATION WHEREBY AFTER 1997 HONG KONG'S FREEDOM OF
BE CURTAILED.
HE SAID THE
ARGUMENT
THE
ADMINISTRATION
THE PRINCIPLE OF CHINESE FLAG IMPORTANT
WAS ᎢᎻᎪᎢ . WHEREAS UNDER THE BRITISH FLAG COULD BE TRUSTED TO RESPECT FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, THE SAR ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE
TO
TO BE
HEED COULD AFTER 1997
THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT PRINCIPLE AS ENSHRINED IN POLITICAL RIGHTS.
NOT
TRUSTED
PAY
COMMENTING THAT SUCH ARGUMENTS APPEALED TO THE
KONG PEOPLE OVER THE
UNCERTAINTIES
ASSOCIATED
SHOULD
WITH
THE ON CIVIL AND
THE
FEARS OF HONG OF CHANGE THE GOOD OF 90 TO BE
ASSESSMENTS
SOVEREIGNTY IN 1997, MR CHEONG QUESTIONED "WHETHER, FOR
ALLOW OURSELVES THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE, WE OVER-RIDDEN BY FEARS AS TO LOSE SIGHT OF THE NEED TO MAKE AND DECISIONS ON A RATIONAL AND PRAGMATIC BASIS.
"EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS