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censorship

Censorship is when freedom of speech is limited or when written material is changed or deleted because someone (a censor) thinks the content is offensive, harmful or sensitive.

censorship

(= censoring) counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy (= censoring) deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances

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Meanwhile, the PIRATE Party offers space on an internet server of their own to all CDU groups in Kassel that are affected by censorship by the party leaders.
We need a press unhampered by government censorship.
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
Chinese journalists at a major newspaper have gone on strike to protest against censorship.
What do you think of censorship?
Censorship erases truth.

Movie subtitles

The camera negative misses the initial credits and the intertitles. These were reconstructed using the censorship cards.
The text of missing intertitles were created from preserved fragments, censorship cards, and the partially preserved script.
This has nothing to do with censorship.
THE JOURNEY TO HAPPINESS OF MOTHER KRAUSE restored in 1957 from a version made by Otto Nagel for the State Film Society of the GDR with new intertitles. It had an original length in 1929 after censorship of 2,846 m (125 minutes).
Monsieur, there's a censorship. That dog's not doing any harm. It couldn't bite anyone.
And censorship.
In view of the censorship risk, the sexual act is depicted as follows.
Mr. Phipps, what is your attitude- towards censorship in the public library?
On BBC 2- a discussion on censorship between Derek Hart, The Bishop of Woolwich and a nude man.
Open, for censorship.
Censorship problems?
It's a kind of censorship.
Censorship.
The next word will be censorship, and then it'll be fascism.
Are you suggesting censorship, Miss?
Only the censorship recalled the rigors of a now-distant war.
The censorship people, I suppose.
When you talked about censorship, there's something that interests me.
Tell me. I've always been against censorship.
We have censorship to an extent but I've heard that you have a lot of censorship.
We had censorship in Hollywood.
It seems that government censorship has ruined our evening.
It's local, state, city or country. Any way you map this, this is censorship.
In the UCR, there is no such thing as censorship.
Mr. Phipps, what is your attitude towards censorship in a public library?
It's not only the young people who suffer from too much censorship.
That man is setting up a moral censorship. when all he was ever commissioned to do was to grant licenses to citizens!
You made a pretty fair start on that, Mr. President, when you pulled Carey back to Washington, clamped the censorship on us.
Do you know why? Because of the censorship. That's what I was told.
And he was nominated for the censorship board!
But with the censorship here they know more in England than we do.
Into a fortress of censorship.
That's censorship, Edward.
How many times have I warned you about censorship?
Who thinks we have to stand up to the kind of censorship they had under Stalin?
Need to have your telegram sent immediately bypassing censorship.
I do not want to go through censorship.
However, censorship and the complications preceding the war on China. caused a rapid change in the goals pursued by this type of film-making.
In those years, censorship was still enforced, but the occupation forces. already overpowered the Japanese government and military, and the country faced. social unrest caused by the discontent of workers.

News and current affairs

For example, Google fights censorship - by doing, not by shouting.
In short, Google is changing expectations about what people can know - even in the United States, where formal censorship is absent, but government obfuscation, opaque corporations, and the like are not.
Rather than demand an end to censorship now - an impossible dream - Google is working to make that happen by eroding government control over information.
Under the state censorship system, most discussions are limited to politically acceptable topics, such as legal reform and anti-corruption efforts.
As the pervasiveness and flexibility of the new medium weakens traditional media censorship, internet-enabled social activism plays an increasingly influential role in China's legal reform and the development of its nascent civil society.
Call it self-censorship if you wish.
But self-censorship is practised all the time by sensible people.
But the real problem is censorship, for the explosion was but the latest offensive in Armenia's hidden war against the press.
Indeed, official censorship is only the tip of an iceberg of cultural censorship.
Writers, journalists, and artists could no longer stand the heavy-handed censorship and supervision.
Some media critics ascribed this to a combination of official censorship and the effect of the scenes of Iraqi civilian deaths played (and replayed) on China's new 24-hour news channel, created especially to cover the war in Iraq.
By requiring every search service, including those of university libraries, to make it difficult to find legal information, we risk opening the door to large-scale private censorship.
But China's government - and others that practice Internet censorship - still want to reap the economic benefits of connectivity.
Last month's victory by scientists, writers, and anti-censorship campaigners suggests that the movement launched by Milton still has life in his own country.
Despite a news blackout during the riots in Lhasa, for example, Chinese Internet users managed to dodge the country's censorship.
To protest against censorship, the Silicon Valley-based company relocated from mainland China in 2009 to the still relatively free Hong Kong.
But that reconciliation did not last long: Google, after all, had accepted censorship from the beginning of its efforts in China, in 2006, in order to gain entry into the Chinese market.
After six months of life in Hong Kong, money talked: Google reinstated its mainland China service, and with the same level of censorship as before.
In the face of anti-monarchist revolutionary fervor, Parliament - as Cameron should recall - passed the Licensing Order of 1643, which imposed pre-publication censorship on the British press.
For their own sake - and for that of Britain - other UK media organizations should stop flirting with censorship and lead this campaign.
Indeed, Western journalists and news organizations seem to accept as a fact of life censorship within countries that routinely control the media.
Acquiescing to such censorship might have been necessary when printing presses, delivery trucks, news kiosks, or transmission towers were the only way to get printed publications or broadcast programs to news consumers.
We should consider the front pages of every free nation's newspapers as a precious set of documents, to be replicated and shared openly throughout the world, especially in countries where heavy state censorship exists.
Self-censorship would undermine their freedom and encourage further pressure on free speech.
The fundamental principle underlying freedom of expression is that speech must be answered with more speech, never with violence, imprisonment, or censorship.
Indeed, the more economic power China has accumulated, the more adept it has become in extending censorship to cyberspace.
Despite the regime's vast means of censorship, its embrace of new communications technologies like the Internet make it increasingly difficult for the party to maintain effective control over people's views.
When media outlets aren't owned - and tamed - by the authorities or people close to them, they still face censorship, intimidation, tax audits, and occasionally assassination of their journalists and editors.
Censorship has been made easier, not more difficult, by the government's decision in the 1990's to shift to a free-market strategy for entertainment products.
Perhaps realizing that an entertained and distracted populace is less likely to complain about public policy, the Party has allowed entertainment programming to follow the Western model, lessening the need for micro-managed censorship.

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