Censorship

right to communicate one's opinions and ideas and right to speak

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". Censorship can be conducted by governments and private institutions. 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. General censorship occurs in a variety of different media, including speech, books, music, films, and other arts, the press, radio, television, and the Internet for a variety of claimed

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freedom of an individual to hold or consider a fact, viewpoint, or thought, independent of others' viewpoints

speech that expresses hatred towards individuals or groups

In the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984), by George Orwell, Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate. To meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) in Oceania, the Party created Newspeak, a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary designed to prevent people from being able to think critically. The Newspeak language thus limits the person's ability to articulate and communicate abstract concepts, such as personal identity, self-expression, and free will, which are thoughtcrimes, acts

practice of publicly shaming, rejecting, and ceasing to provide support to people perceived as problematic

An obscenity is any utterance or act that strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time. It is derived from the Latin , , "boding ill; disgusting; indecent", of uncertain etymology. Generally, the term can be used to indicate strong moral repugnance and outrage in expressions such as "obscene profits" and "the obscenity of war". As a legal term, it usually refers to descriptions and depictions of people engaged in sexual and excretory activity.

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21-month period in the history of India

Abusive lawsuits intended to burden an opponent rather than to win or gain financially

bias within the mass media

tendency not to side in a conflict

Orwellian is a neologism suggested in the writings by George Orwell. It is an adjective which is used to describe a situation, an idea or a societal condition, usually identified as being destructive to a free and open society. It was first used by the American author Mary McCarthy in 1950. The term denotes draconian control by propaganda, surveillance, disinformation, and denial of truth. It is commonly used in reference to Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four which describes an oppressive fictional totalitarian society where propaganda is used to manipulate the population. Orwe

pejorative term for overly tolerant left-wing politics

process through which information is filtered for dissemination

Aniconism is the cultural absence of artistic representations (icons) of the natural and supernatural worlds, or it is the absence of representations of certain figures in religions. The prohibition of material representations may only extend to a specific supreme deity, or it can encompass an entire pantheon, it can also include depictions of a prophet, saints, or sages, or even depictions of living beings and anything in existence generally. It is generally codified by religious traditions and as such, it becomes a taboo. When it is enforced by the physical destruction of images, aniconism b

discouragement of exercising rights by threats of legal sanctions

leaf of the fig tree, traditionally used in art to obscure nudity

1674–1830 series of annotated Latin classics

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geographic area in which a sanctioning authority prohibits specified activities

law prohibiting blasphemy

communications intended for insiders of a group

unofficial observance

replacement of offensive language (swear words) or personal details with a beep sound

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thumb|A bust of MIT president Francis Amasa Walker separated from its pedestal at the [[MIT Museum]] Deplatforming, also known as no-platforming, is a boycott on an individual or group by removing the platforms used to share their information or ideas. The term is commonly associated with social media.

basic form of text, photography and video censorship that occludes certain information or images with rectangular boxes

legal order restricting making public of information or comments

term

securing the possibility of reporting without threats

to sanitize and change hiding undesirable qualities (censorship)

unspoken group consensus to not mention, discuss, or acknowledge a given subject

forceful activities against competing ideologies and philosophies

Type of censorship

censorship of news related to a certain topic

censorship by corporations

Inspection or examination of mail

Gross-out is described as a movement in art (often with comical connotations), which is intended to shock the viewer(s) and disgust the wider audience by presenting them with controversial material (such as toilet humor and fetishes) that might be ill received by a mainstream audience.

publishing process

type of criminal offence in several countries

legality of fascistiska and Nazi symbols after World War 2

legal term

Eliminationism is a political ideology that views a group within a larger social group as harmful and therefore believes it must be eliminated—by separation, censorship, or extermination—for the benefit of the larger group and in order to preserve its "purity."

whistleblowing organization

censorship by a government

metaphoric phrase

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type of cinematography with extreme character

deliberate modification of publicly available maps

French aphorism

poem by Percy Shelley

suppressing certain types of information before the fact

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