So it is that the former Ontario Board of Censors has now been renamed the Ontario Film Review Board. The Federation of Women Teachers' Associations relied heavily on sensationalism, inaccurate information, and on the popularly misused research conducted by Edward Donnerstein of Wisconsin to support its cause. While some artists were busy denigrating the profit motive, others had no reservations about confiscating the actual profits of others, demonstrating that it was only the necessity of having to earn those profits that they were objecting to. In their attempt to further increase the powers of censorship to ban materials with which they do not happen to agree, feminist groups who subscribe to this kind of thinking are resorting to the very tactics they publicly deplore. Lovelace's promotional comments about her book were highly misleading, and in direct conflict with what she had to say about the commercial porn industry within the pages of her book.
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The Commission concludes in the Report that censorship is neither a desirable nor an effective method for the regulation of targeted materials. In a free society, individual citizens are accorded the right to make their own choices. Freedom Party's official responses to the questions as published by the Law Reform Commission. Freedom Party of Ontario is pleased to announce its opposition to any form of government censorship, both on principle and in practice. A free society can only survive by trusting its citizens and by placing the responsibility for their actions squarely on them.