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Censorship

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient".

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Censorship

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related to Further reading · 157
Censorship → Abbott, Access, Age, Alison, Anthem Press, Battle, Benefits, Better Left Unsaid, Biltereyst, Birmingham, Blogger's Manifesto, Bloomsbury Academic, Books, Brno, Butler, CA, Cato Institute, Censors, Cham, Chapter
see also · 26
Censorship → Adjective, Basic, Bloc, Book, Code, Denying, Digital, Eighty-Four, European, Freedom, George OrwellOrwellian, George OrwellParental, Imagocracy, Increased, Internet, Laws, LGBTQ, Litigation, Party, Propaganda
related to Implementation · 22
Censorship → All, An, Chief Agency, Child Sexuality, Glavlit, Glavlit's, La, Law, Michel Foucault's, Military, No, Protection, Russian, Sexual Morality, Sometimes, Soviet, Soviet Union, State Secrets, The, The Danger
related to Religion · 21
Censorship → Ancient Greece, Athenian, Athens, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, BC, Compiègne, Edict, Examples, Galileo, Images, Index Librorum Prohibitorum, Iranian, Islamic, Muhammad, Plato, Religious, Salman Rushdie's, Socrates, The, The Satanic Verses
related to Political · 19
Censorship → Allied, Allied High Command, Allies, At, CCD, During, Far East Military Tribunal, For, Governments, In, Japan, Japan's, Political, SCAP, Since, The, Those, United States, World World II
related to Journalism · 18
Censorship → Andrei Sinyavsky, Another, Cold War, Communist Party, Critics, Eastern Bloc, FCC, Foreign, Gorbachev, In, Independent, KGB, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pacifica Foundation, Possession, Pravda, Soviet Union, United States
is a · 11
Censorship → act of censoring or classifying one's own discourse, censorship of political opinions in violation of freedom of speech, control or suppression of the publishing or accessing of information on the Internet, form of censorship where freedom of expression is controlled or limited using religious authority or on the basis of the teachings of the religion, means by which any material considered objectionable by a certain religion is removed, practice of influencing news coverage for example by applying financial pressure on media companies that are deemed critical of a government or its policies and rewarding media…, process by which editors in corporate media outlets intervene to disrupt the publishing of information that portrays their business or business partners in a negative light, process of keeping military intelligence and tactics confidential to safeguard national security and maintain public support, removal of materials that are obscene or otherwise considered morally questionable, suppression of speech, type of censorship enacted by economic markets to favor
related to By country · 10
Censorship → FH, Freedom, Freedom House, Net, ONI, OpenNet Initiative, Press, Reporters Without Borders, RWB, V-Dem
related to Films · 9
Censorship → Aside, Censored Eleven, China, Film, Filmmakers, For, Ford Foundation, LGBT-related, One
related to Economic induced censorship · 7
Censorship → Andy Müller-Maguhn, Cypherpunks, Economic, Jacob Appelbaum, Julian Assange, Jérémie Zimmermann, The

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media political information internet government speech social freedom public control often law use press banned state also censored party self-censorship

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Censorshipis asuppression of speech0.90text
Censorshipis aremoval of materials that are obscene or otherwise considered morally questionable0.90text
Censorshipis aprocess of keeping military intelligence and tactics confidential to safeguard national security and maintain public support0.90text
Censorshipis ameans by which any material considered objectionable by a certain religion is removed0.90text
Censorshipis aprocess by which editors in corporate media outlets intervene to disrupt the publishing of information that portrays their business or business partners in a negative light0.90text
Censorshipis acensorship of political opinions in violation of freedom of speech0.90text
Censorshipis aform of censorship where freedom of expression is controlled or limited using religious authority or on the basis of the teachings of the religion0.90text
Censorshipis atype of censorship enacted by economic markets to favor0.90text
Censorshipis aact of censoring or classifying one's own discourse0.90text
Censorshipis apractice of influencing news coverage for example by applying financial pressure on media companies that are deemed critical of a government or its policies and rewarding media…0.90text
Censorshipis acontrol or suppression of the publishing or accessing of information on the Internet0.90text
an author or other creator engages in censorship of their own works or speechinstance ofWhen an individual0.80text

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