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*’censorship’ is the ‘suppression’ of [‘speech’ / ‘public communication’ / other ‘information’] on the basis that such material is considered…*
‘objectionable’
‘harmful’
‘sensitive’
‘inconvenient’
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(‘censorship’ can be conducted by…)
‘governments’
‘private institutions’
‘corporations’
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Governments and private organizations may engage in censorship.
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Other groups or institutions may propose and petition for censorship
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When an individual such as an author or other creator engages in censorship of their own works or speech, it is referred to as self-censorship
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It occurs in a variety of different media, including…
speech,
books,
music,
films,
and other arts,
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the press,
radio,
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television,
and the Internet for a variety of claimed reasons including
national security,
to control obscenity, / child pornography / hate speech,
to protect children or other vulnerable groups,
to promote or restrict political or religious views,
and to prevent slander and libel.
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(‘direct censorship’ may or may not be legal, depending on the type, location, and content)
(many countries provide strong protections against censorship by law, but none of these protections are absolute and frequently a claim of necessity to balance conflicting rights is made, in order to determine what could and could not be censored)
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(there are no ‘laws’ against ‘self-censorship’)
โ“duh!”โ“duh!”
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*๐โจ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* โจ๐ท*
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๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ*we won the war* ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ