- Israelis given a raw glimpse of war (March 19, 2002)
...iers stormed their house – Channel 2 broke a deal that allowed the army to censor the images. Channel 2 was the only station to broadcast the images, whi... - Fear & Favor 2001: How Power Shapes the News (March 24, 2002)
...... - America Brings Democracy: Censor Now, Vote Later (June 22, 2003)
...ule, quick elections could also set off violence. Even the question of censorship is more complicated than it might at first appear, at least in the view of... - Veteran Anchor Attacks Media for Being Timid (May 17, 2002)
...t questions of America's leaders. He said he was personally guilty of self-censorship. "It is an obscene comparison ... but you know there was a time in Sout... - Afghan Media Reforms Under Scrutiny (May 17, 2002)
...udent militia determined the news agenda and the editorial approach. "They censored the domestic press, though they could do nothing about the international m... - Wolfowitz the Censor (August 1, 2003)
...le coverage, and once by Al-Jazeera itself in protest over attempts at censorship. Al-Jazeera reporters in Iraq have even been physically assaulted by f... - FBI Seizes Documents from News Agency (April 24, 2003)
...ations of the media, and I want to make sure we don't have any attempts to censor or stymie the news," Mr. Grassley said in a statement. If agents were... - Afghan Supreme Court Upholds Media Ban on Women (August 31, 2002)
... we defend the move. Films that consist of melodrama and romance should be censored," Manawi said. "The decision was made following repeated complaints fr... - Scientists Say Administration Distorts Facts (February 19, 2004)
... administration has misrepresented scientific consensus on global warming, censored at least one report on climate change, manipulated scientific findings on... - The Domination Effect (January 8, 2004)
...some Iraqi-run newspapers and radio and TV stations. According to Index on Censorship, IMN managers were told to drop the readings from the Koran, the vox-pops... - FBI Campaign Against Einstein Revealed (June 8, 2002)
...fessor of English at Florida International University in Miami, obtained a censored version of Einstein's 1,427-page FBI file. But Jerome uncovers new mat... - White House Refuses to Release Sept. 11 Report (July 29, 2003)
...government to deal with any questions which may be raised in the currently censored pages, and allow the American people to make their own judgment about who... - US and Britain Lambast Iraq Dossier (December 18, 2002)
...tion — was removed from it. Syria in particular has been angered by the censorship of the document, and on Wednesday said it would return its copy in protest... - Army Censors Reporters (November 26, 2003)
...a consistent message. To hear him say it here is good for everyone." To censor the people called on to make sacrifices is not. They are as disciplined an... - EPA Report Following Sept. 11 Censored by White House (August 27, 2003)
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- Censorship in cyberspace
- Censorship in Australia
- Censorship in Europe
- Censorship under fascist regimes
- Censorship in France
- Censorship in Iraq
- Censorship in the United States
- Book burning
- Censored Eleven (banned Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons)
- Censorware
- Bleep censor
- Disinfopedia.
- Fahrenheit 451
- Index Librorum Prohibitorum of The Roman Catholic Church
- John Stuart Mill
- Lady Chatterley's Lover
- Media Restriction
- Production Code
- Project Censored
- Project for the New American Century
- V-chip
Censorship
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In ancient Rome, censorship was the office or function of a censor. This article is about controls over publication and discussion.
Censorship is the use of state or group power to control freedom of expression. Censorship 'criminalizes' certain actions or the communication of such actions - or suggested communications of such actions. In a modern sense censorship consists of any attempt to suppress information, points of view, or method of expression such as art, or profanity. The purpose of censorship is to maintain the status quo, to control the development of a society, or to stifle dissent among a subject people. For this reason, censorship is very common among organized religions, clubs, social groups and governments. However there are been groups fighting against censorship-indeed not representing a minority group correctly is a form of censorship.
Censorship can be explicit, as in laws passed to prevent information being published or propagated (as in Australia or China where certain internet pages are not permitted entry), or it can take the form of intimidation by government or even by popular censure, where people are afraid to express or support certain opinions for fear of losing their lives, or their jobs, position in society, or in academia, their academic credibility. In this latter, form it is sometimes called McCarthyism.
Censorship is generally rampant in dictatorships and other authoritarian nations. Democratic nations usually have far less institutionalized censorship, and instead tout the importance of freedom of speech.
Some thinkers include as censorship other attempts to suppress points of view or ideas such as propaganda, media manipulation, spin (politics), or disinformation. These methods, collectively, tend to work by refusing the ideas a receptive audience.
Others point out the suppression of access to the means of dissemination of ideas by governmental bodies such as the FCC in the United States of America, or by a newspaper that refuses to run commentary the publisher disagrees with, or a lecture hall that refuses to rent itself out to a particular speaker. Thinkers such as philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand consider this latter form of censorship to be an acceptable outcome of the defense of property rights. Contradictions of her position emerge from her disapproval of state backed monopoly license in the arena of radio and telecommunication broadcast and state funding of the arts.
Data havens and decentralized peer-to-peer file sharing systems such as Freenet can be used to prevent censorship.
Analysis of censorship in action
List of banned works
See also: