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censorship

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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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Censorship is the suppression of speech, communication, or information that someone considers objectionable, harmful, or inconvenient—and it can be carried out by governments, private institutions, or even by individuals censoring their own work. It matters because censorship affects what information and ideas people can access and share across many forms of media, from books and films to the internet and press.

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Subclass of
job activity
Part of
ban
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opposite of
freedom of speech
different from
gatekeeping
Commons category
Censorship
topic's main category
Category:Censorship
practiced by
censor
described by source
New International Encyclopedia
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
ACM Classification Code (2012)
10003480
equivalent class
wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/pwn30/00397347-n
topic has template
Template:Censorship and websites
facet of
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
P13411
May 27
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Encyclopedic overview

35 sections
Contents
  • Definition
  • Rationale and criticism
  • Types
  • Political
  • State secrets and prevention of attention
  • Religion
  • Educational sources
  • Economic induced censorship
  • Self-censorship
  • Copy, picture, and writer approval
  • Reverse censorship
  • Soft censorship
  • Financial censorship
  • By media
  • Literature
  • Journalism
  • Films
  • Music
  • Maps
  • Art
  • Photography
  • Pornography
  • Internet
  • Social media
  • Weather reports
  • Video games
  • Impact of surveillance
  • Implementation
  • Concessions to avoid censorship
  • By country
  • Notes
  • See also
  • References
  • Works cited
  • Further reading

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 reasons including national security, to control obscenity, pornography, and hate speech, to protect children or other vulnerable groups, to promote or restrict political or religious views, and to prevent slander and libel. Specific rules and regulations regarding censorship vary between legal jurisdictions and/or private organizations.

==Definition== There are many types of censorship.

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