theactionofpreventingpartor thewholeof abook,film,workofart,document, or otherkindofcommunicationfrom beingseenor madeavailableto thepublic, because it isconsideredto beoffensiveorharmful, or because itcontainsinformationthat someonewishestokeepsecret, often forpoliticalreasons:
censorship of thepress新闻审查制度
asystemin which anauthoritylimitstheideasthatpeopleareallowedtoexpressandpreventsbooks,films,worksofart,documents, or otherkindsofcommunicationfrom beingseenor madeavailableto thepublic, because theyincludeorsupportcertainideas:
Civillibertarianssay that therulingamountsto censorship.
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She called TVnewscensorship ofviolentnews"hypocritical".
Somewebsitesaresubjecttogovernmentcensorship.
We do notadvocatethe censorship ofartisticexpression.
There has always beenmoviecensorship since the firstfilmswerecreatedto beseenby themasses.
With a reference list of literary works, munication networks, and new approaches to story resources to fightcensorship, and three appendices telling.
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They often undertook the elimination ofcensorshiprather than enter costly legal battles to preserve the practice.
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Nevertheless, and perhaps surprisingly, the central liberty principle admitscensorshipof certain extraordinary types of expression which necessarily harm others.
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It had to assume traditional functions:censorship, social security for writers, and also a 'moral protection' of literature, as in the case of cinematographic adaptations.
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Her analysis reveals that the regime depended on several pieces of legislation to justifycensorship.
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Determining what information searches are blocked by the government is a useful gauge tocensorship.
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Unlike a prosecution for obscenity, acensorshipproceeding assigns the burden of proof to the exhibitor or distributor.
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Without the scar, the censoring machinery operates invisibly; with it, a trace remains by which thecensorshipcan be seen as such.
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In addition, it seems that acensorshiphad been conducted when the records of the war were compiled.
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The "necessary evils" of social purity andcensorshipmust be credited in part for our perception of individual writers and their literary legacy.
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Censorshipof the press applied as much to news and information as to political opinions during this period.
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Opencensorshipof such divines was thus not only undesirable, but might not in fact be necessary.
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Illuminating the documents are volume, chapter and source overviews, giving useful information on matters such as newspaper circulation numbers,censorshipand reporting conditions.
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He believes that lack of clarity over rights is leading to covertcensorshipof the circulation of ideas.
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Historians have commonly distinguishedcensorshipas a policy from its enforcement.
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Collocationswithcensorship
censorship
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censorship board
Instead, local chapters supported suits brought by their members or other willing parties against police andcensorshipboardacts and supported suits by film distributors.
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film censorship
I recognise the importance of the question of the efficiency offilmcensorship.
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form of censorship
I utterly reject this dictatorial concept, which is only anotherformofcensorship.
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