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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