Off-page, Lee kept politics and radicalism front and center in his actions he was part of the comics creators that put their characters at the forefront of the action during World War II (even taking a hiatus to go into the service himself), and challenged the Comics Code Authority when it was pushing to censor the work of comics professionals during the late '60s and early 70's.
These crackdowns are part of a broader campaign to censor speech and information online, as the Chinese government pushes to "promote the healthy, orderly development of the Internet, protect state security and public interest".
As spectacular sums flow through the art market and an expert verdict can make or destroy a fortune, several high-profile legal cases have pushed scholars to censor themselves for fear of becoming entangled in lawsuits.
This is a major concern and has been at the forefront of government controls such as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) which was pushing to give government the right to censor the Internet.
This may sound like the premise for a straight-up porno, but while it pushed censors to the limit with its explicit dungeon scenes, this French arthouse film was downgraded to from an X to an 18 certificate in the UK in 2003.
Claire Perry [SFW] is England's Net Nanny who, over the past few months, has pushed that country's disastrous bid to censor the Internet through to the highest levels.
I who consider myself a brave writer, one unafraid to push boundaries, to speak truth to power, I who believe these things about myself as much as any of you, I have in this instance self-censored.
But he pushed the censors' limits in 1965 with the film "The Rabbit Is Me," a portrayal of hypocrisy in the criminal justice system.
That said, these very negatives are also positives: they allow opinions that are pushed out or censored from mainstream discourse to have a public space.
Whatever the impact of these images, I'm suspicious of any group that wants to censor everyone else while using chimps and their images to further their own careers — and push their own public-relations agendas.
