Summary
The Massachusetts attorney general proceeded to bar public screenings, and the state's Supreme Court ruled that the movie constituted an invasion of the privacy of the Bridgewater guards and patients. Today's snake pits-dispersed throughout society-are concealed by a façade of pseudomedical diagnoses, therapies, treatment-advocacy centers, alliances for the mentally ill, and the renaming of insane asylums as "health care facilities."
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Therapeutic Censorship
Freedom of speech is one of the most distinctly American political values. In many European democracies people take for granted that their freedom requires criminal sanctions against the expression of certain odious ideas, exemplified by the denial of the Holocaust. In the United States, that would be a clear violation of the First Amendment.
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