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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Economic_induced_censorship"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>Economic induced censorship</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Economic_induced_censorship-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Self-censorship" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Self-censorship"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.6</span> <span>Self-censorship</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Self-censorship-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Copy,_picture,_and_writer_approval" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Copy,_picture,_and_writer_approval"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7</span> <span>Copy, picture, and writer approval</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Copy,_picture,_and_writer_approval-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Reverse_censorship" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Reverse_censorship"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.8</span> <span>Reverse censorship</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Reverse_censorship-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Soft_censorship" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Soft_censorship"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.9</span> <span>Soft censorship</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Soft_censorship-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-By_media" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_media"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>By media</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-By_media-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet 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class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Maps" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Maps"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4</span> <span>Maps</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Maps-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Art" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Art"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.5</span> <span>Art</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Art-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Internet" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Internet"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.6</span> <span>Internet</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Internet-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Social_media" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Social_media"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.6.1</span> <span>Social media</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Social_media-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Video_games" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Video_games"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.7</span> <span>Video games</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Video_games-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Impact_of_surveillance" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Impact_of_surveillance"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Impact of surveillance</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Impact_of_surveillance-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Implementation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Implementation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Implementation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Implementation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-By_country" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_country"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>By country</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-By_country-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle By country subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-By_country-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Australia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Australia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1</span> <span>Australia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Australia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Belgium" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Belgium"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.2</span> <span>Belgium</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Belgium-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Canada" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Canada"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.3</span> <span>Canada</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Canada-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cuba" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cuba"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.4</span> <span>Cuba</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cuba-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-China" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#China"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.5</span> <span>China</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-China-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Eastern_Bloc" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Eastern_Bloc"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.6</span> <span>Eastern Bloc</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Eastern_Bloc-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-France" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#France"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.7</span> <span>France</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-France-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-India" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#India"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.8</span> <span>India</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-India-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Iran" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Iran"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.9</span> <span>Iran</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Iran-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Iraq" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Iraq"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.10</span> <span>Iraq</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Iraq-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Japan" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Japan"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.11</span> <span>Japan</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Japan-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Malaysia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Malaysia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.12</span> <span>Malaysia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Malaysia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-North_Korea" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#North_Korea"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.13</span> <span>North Korea</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-North_Korea-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Russia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Russia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.14</span> <span>Russia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Russia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Serbia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Serbia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.15</span> <span>Serbia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Serbia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Singapore" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Singapore"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.16</span> <span>Singapore</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Singapore-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Soviet_Union" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Soviet_Union"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.17</span> <span>Soviet Union</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Soviet_Union-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Spain" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Spain"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.18</span> <span>Spain</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Spain-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Turkey" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Turkey"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.19</span> <span>Turkey</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Turkey-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-United_Kingdom" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#United_Kingdom"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.20</span> <span>United Kingdom</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-United_Kingdom-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-United_States" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#United_States"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.21</span> <span>United States</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-United_States-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Uruguay" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Uruguay"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.22</span> <span>Uruguay</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Uruguay-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-References-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle References subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Works_cited" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Works_cited"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.1</span> <span>Works cited</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Works_cited-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" 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href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censura" title="Censura – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Censura" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senzura" title="Senzura – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Senzura" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%A8" title="বিবাচন – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="বিবাচন" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B7%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0" title="Цензура – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Цензура" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B7%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0" title="Цэнзура – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Цэнзура" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B7%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0" title="Цэнзура – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Цэнзура" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B7%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0" title="Цензура – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Цензура" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenzura" title="Cenzura – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Cenzura" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censura" title="Censura – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Censura" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenzura" title="Cenzura – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Cenzura" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensoriaeth" title="Sensoriaeth – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Sensoriaeth" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censur" title="Censur – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Censur" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zensur_(Informationskontrolle)" title="Zensur (Informationskontrolle) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Zensur (Informationskontrolle)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsensuur" title="Tsensuur – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Tsensuur" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9B%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%BF%CE%BA%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%AF%CE%B1" title="Λογοκρισία – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Λογοκρισία" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censura" title="Censura – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Censura" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenzuro" title="Cenzuro – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Cenzuro" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zentsura" title="Zentsura – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Zentsura" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1" title="سانسور – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="سانسور" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censure" title="Censure – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Censure" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censura" title="Censura – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Censura" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B2%80%EC%97%B4" title="검열 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="검열" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B3%D6%80%D5%A1%D6%84%D5%B6%D5%B6%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6" title="Գրաքննություն – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Գրաքննություն" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%A8" title="अभिवेचन – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="अभिवेचन" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenzura" title="Cenzura – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Cenzura" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censuro" title="Censuro – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Censuro" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penyensoran" title="Penyensoran – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Penyensoran" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censura" title="Censura – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Censura" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritsko%C3%B0un" title="Ritskoðun – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Ritskoðun" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censura" title="Censura – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Censura" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A6%D7%A0%D7%96%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%94" title="צנזורה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="צנזורה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%AA%E1%83%94%E1%83%9C%E1%83%96%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90" title="ცენზურა – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ცენზურა" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B7%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0" title="Цензура – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Цензура" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sens%C3%BBr" title="Sensûr – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Sensûr" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B7%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0" title="Цензура – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Цензура" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censura" title="Censura – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Censura" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenz%C5%ABra" title="Cenzūra – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Cenzūra" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenz%C5%ABra" title="Cenzūra – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Cenzūra" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenz%C3%BAra" title="Cenzúra – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Cenzúra" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B7%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0" title="Цензура – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Цензура" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B7%E0%A4%A3" title="परिनिरीक्षण – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="परिनिरीक्षण" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%87" title="الرقابه – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="الرقابه" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penapisan" title="Penapisan – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Penapisan" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mdf mw-list-item"><a href="https://mdf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B7%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8C" title="Цензурась – Moksha" lang="mdf" hreflang="mdf" data-title="Цензурась" data-language-autonym="Мокшень" data-language-local-name="Moksha" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Мокшень</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D1%85%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%82" title="Цагдан хяналт – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Цагдан хяналт" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%86%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%86%E1%80%AC%E1%80%95%E1%80%BC%E1%80%AF%E1%80%9C%E1%80%AF%E1%80%95%E1%80%BA%E1%80%81%E1%80%BC%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8" title="ဆင်ဆာပြုလုပ်ခြင်း – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ဆင်ဆာပြုလုပ်ခြင်း" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censuur_(informatie)" title="Censuur (informatie) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Censuur (informatie)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A4%9C%E9%96%B2" title="検閲 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="検閲" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensur" title="Sensur – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Sensur" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensur" title="Sensur – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Sensur" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censura" title="Censura – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Censura" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senzura" title="Senzura – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Senzura" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B8%E0%A9%88%E0%A8%82%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BC%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%AA" title="ਸੈਂਸਰਸ਼ਿਪ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਸੈਂਸਰਸ਼ਿਪ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1" title="سانسور – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="سانسور" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenzura" title="Cenzura – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Cenzura" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censura" title="Censura – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Censura" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenzur%C4%83" title="Cenzură – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Cenzură" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rue mw-list-item"><a href="https://rue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B7%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0" title="Цензура – Rusyn" lang="rue" hreflang="rue" data-title="Цензура" data-language-autonym="Русиньскый" data-language-local-name="Rusyn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русиньскый</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru badge-Q17559452 badge-recommendedarticle mw-list-item" title="recommended article"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B7%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0" title="Цензура – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Цензура" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sc mw-list-item"><a href="https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzensura" title="Tzensura – Sardinian" lang="sc" hreflang="sc" data-title="Tzensura" data-language-autonym="Sardu" data-language-local-name="Sardinian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sardu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censura" title="Censura – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Censura" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship" title="Censorship – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Censorship" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%BE" title="سينسرشپ – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="سينسرشپ" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سنڌي</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenz%C3%BAra_(kontrola_inform%C3%A1ci%C3%AD)" title="Cenzúra (kontrola informácií) – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Cenzúra (kontrola informácií)" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenzura" title="Cenzura – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Cenzura" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%DB%86%D8%B1%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%86" title="سانسۆرکردن – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="سانسۆرکردن" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B7%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0" title="Цензура – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Цензура" 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Republic of Iran">Islamic</a>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Iraq" title="Censorship in Iraq">Iraq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="Censorship in the Republic of Ireland">Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Israel" title="Censorship in Israel">Israel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Italy" title="Censorship in Italy">Italy</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/Propaganda_and_censorship_in_Italy_during_the_First_World_War" title="Propaganda and censorship in Italy during the First World War">World War I</a>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Jamaica" title="Censorship in Jamaica">Jamaica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Japan" title="Censorship in Japan">Japan</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_the_Empire_of_Japan" title="Censorship in the Empire of Japan">Empire of Japan</a>)</span></li> <li> <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Kenya" class="mw-redirect" title="Censorship in Kenya">Kenya</a></li> <li> <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Malawi" title="Internet censorship in Malawi">Malawi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Malaysia" title="Censorship in Malaysia">Malaysia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_the_Maldives" title="Censorship in the Maldives">Maldives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Mexico" title="Censorship in Mexico">Mexico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Morocco" title="Internet censorship in Morocco">Morocco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Myanmar" title="Censorship in Myanmar">Myanmar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Nepal" title="Censorship in Nepal">Nepal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_New_Zealand" title="Censorship in New Zealand">New Zealand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Nicaragua" class="mw-redirect" title="Censorship in Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Nigeria" title="Censorship in Nigeria">Nigeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_North_Korea" title="Censorship in North Korea">North Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Pakistan" title="Censorship in Pakistan">Pakistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Paraguay" class="mw-redirect" title="Censorship in Paraguay">Paraguay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Peru" title="Censorship in Peru">Peru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_the_Philippines" title="Censorship in the Philippines">Philippines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Poland" title="Censorship in Poland">Poland</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Communist_Poland" title="Censorship in Communist Poland">Communist</a></span>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Portugal" title="Censorship in Portugal">Portugal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Qatar" class="mw-redirect" title="Censorship in Qatar">Qatar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Romania" class="mw-redirect" title="Censorship in Romania">Romania</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Communist_Romania" title="Censorship in Communist Romania">Communist</a></span>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Russia" title="Censorship in Russia">Russia</a><br />(<span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_the_Russian_Empire" title="Censorship in the Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a> / <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Censorship in the Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Rwanda" title="Censorship in Rwanda">Rwanda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Samoa" title="Censorship in Samoa">Samoa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Saudi_Arabia" title="Censorship in Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Media_freedom_in_Serbia" title="Media freedom in Serbia">Serbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Singapore" title="Censorship in Singapore">Singapore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Somalia" class="mw-redirect" title="Censorship in Somalia">Somalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Sudan" class="mw-redirect" title="Censorship in Sudan">Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_South_Africa" title="Internet censorship in South Africa">South Africa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_South_Asia" title="Censorship in South Asia">South Asia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_South_Korea" title="Censorship in South Korea">South Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_South_Sudan" class="mw-redirect" title="Censorship in South Sudan">South Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Spain" title="Censorship in Spain">Spain</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Francoist_Spain" title="Censorship in Francoist Spain">Francoist</a>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Sri_Lanka" class="mw-redirect" title="Censorship in Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Sweden" title="Censorship in Sweden">Sweden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Syria" title="Internet censorship in Syria">Syria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Taiwan" title="Censorship in Taiwan">Taiwan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Thailand" title="Censorship in Thailand">Thailand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Tunisia" title="Censorship in Tunisia">Tunisia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Turkey" title="Censorship in Turkey">Turkey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Uganda" class="mw-redirect" title="Censorship in Uganda">Uganda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press_in_Ukraine" title="Freedom of the press in Ukraine">Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates" class="mw-redirect" title="Censorship in the United Arab Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Censorship in the United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_States" title="Censorship in the United States">United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Venezuela" title="Censorship in Venezuela">Venezuela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Vietnam" title="Censorship in Vietnam">Vietnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Yemen" title="Human rights in Yemen">Yemen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Zimbabwe" class="mw-redirect" title="Censorship in Zimbabwe">Zimbabwe</a></li></ul> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#8B9A7B;color:black;"> See also</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country" title="Freedom of speech by country">Freedom of speech by country</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_surveillance_by_country" title="Internet censorship and surveillance by country">Internet censorship and surveillance by country</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar" style="border-top:1px solid #aaa;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Censorship_by_country" title="Template:Censorship by country"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Censorship_by_country" title="Template talk:Censorship by country"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Censorship_by_country" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Censorship by country"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Censorship</b> is the suppression of <a href="/wiki/Speech" title="Speech">speech</a>, public communication, or other <a href="/wiki/Information" title="Information">information</a>. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Censorship can be conducted by <a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government">governments</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> private institutions.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When an individual such as an author or other creator engages in censorship of their own works or speech, it is referred to as <i><a href="/wiki/Self-censorship" title="Self-censorship">self-censorship</a></i>. General censorship occurs in a variety of different media, including speech, books, music, films, and other arts, <a href="/wiki/Newspaper" title="Newspaper">the press</a>, radio, television, and the Internet for a variety of claimed reasons including <a href="/wiki/National_security" title="National security">national security</a>, to control <a href="/wiki/Obscenity" title="Obscenity">obscenity</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pornography" title="Pornography">pornography</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hate_speech" title="Hate speech">hate speech</a>, to protect children or other vulnerable groups, to promote or restrict political or religious views, and to prevent <a href="/wiki/Defamation" title="Defamation">slander</a> and <a href="/wiki/Defamation" title="Defamation">libel</a>. Specific rules and regulations regarding censorship vary between <a href="/wiki/Legal_Jurisdiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Legal Jurisdiction">legal jurisdictions</a> and/or private organizations. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Victims_of_Communism_Memorial_DBKing_A.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Victims_of_Communism_Memorial_DBKing_A.jpg/170px-Victims_of_Communism_Memorial_DBKing_A.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Victims_of_Communism_Memorial_DBKing_A.jpg/255px-Victims_of_Communism_Memorial_DBKing_A.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Victims_of_Communism_Memorial_DBKing_A.jpg/340px-Victims_of_Communism_Memorial_DBKing_A.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2718" data-file-height="2484" /></a><figcaption>Chinese troops destroyed the statue <i><a href="/wiki/Goddess_of_Democracy" title="Goddess of Democracy">Goddess of Democracy</a></i> in <a href="/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989" class="mw-redirect" title="Tiananmen Square protests of 1989">Tiananmen Square in 1989</a>, and continue to censor information about those events.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This statue, now known as the <i><a href="/wiki/Victims_of_Communism_Memorial" title="Victims of Communism Memorial">Victims of Communism Memorial</a></i>, was recreated by Thomas Marsh in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_DC" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington, DC">Washington, DC</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chile_quema_libros_1973.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Chile_quema_libros_1973.JPG/170px-Chile_quema_libros_1973.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="215" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Chile_quema_libros_1973.JPG/255px-Chile_quema_libros_1973.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Chile_quema_libros_1973.JPG/340px-Chile_quema_libros_1973.JPG 2x" data-file-width="665" data-file-height="842" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Book_burnings_in_Chile" title="Book burnings in Chile">Book burning in Chile</a> following the <a href="/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1973 Chilean coup d'état">1973 coup</a> that installed the <a href="/wiki/Military_government_of_Chile_(1973%E2%80%931990)" class="mw-redirect" title="Military government of Chile (1973–1990)">Pinochet regime</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In 399 BC, Greek philosopher, <a href="/wiki/Socrates" title="Socrates">Socrates</a>, while defying attempts by the Athenian state to censor his philosophical teachings, was accused of collateral charges related to the corruption of Athenian youth and sentenced to death by drinking a poison, <a href="/wiki/Conium" title="Conium">hemlock</a>. </p><p>The details of Socrates's conviction are recorded by Plato as follows. In 399 BC, Socrates went on <a href="/wiki/Trial_of_Socrates" title="Trial of Socrates">trial</a><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was subsequently found guilty of both corrupting the minds of the youth of Athens and of <a href="/wiki/Impiety" title="Impiety">impiety</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Asebeia" title="Asebeia">asebeia</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "not believing in the gods of the state"),<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and as a punishment sentenced to death, caused by the drinking of a mixture containing hemlock.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Socrates' student, <a href="/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a>, is said to have advocated censorship in his essay on <i><a href="/wiki/The_Republic_(Plato)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Republic (Plato)">The Republic</a></i>, which opposed the existence of democracy. In contrast to Plato, Greek playwright <a href="/wiki/Euripides" title="Euripides">Euripides</a> (480–406 BC) defended the true liberty of freeborn men, including the right to speak freely. In 1766, <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Sweden" title="Censorship in Sweden">Sweden became the first country to abolish censorship by law</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rationale_and_criticism">Rationale and criticism</h2></div> <p>Censorship has been criticized throughout history for being unfair and hindering progress.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In a 1997 essay on Internet censorship, social commentator Michael Landier explains that censorship is counterproductive as it prevents the censored topic from being discussed. Landier expands his argument by claiming that those who impose censorship must consider what they censor to be true, as individuals believing themselves to be correct would welcome the opportunity to disprove those with opposing views.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Censorship is often used to impose moral values on society, as in the censorship of material considered obscene. English novelist <a href="/wiki/E._M._Forster" title="E. M. Forster">E. M. Forster</a> was a staunch opponent of censoring material on the grounds that it was obscene or immoral, raising the issue of moral subjectivity and the constant changing of moral values. When the 1928 novel <i><a href="/wiki/Lady_Chatterley%27s_Lover" title="Lady Chatterley's Lover">Lady Chatterley's Lover</a></i> was <a href="/wiki/R_v_Penguin_Books_Ltd" title="R v Penguin Books Ltd">put on trial in 1960</a>, Forster wrote:<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p><i>Lady Chatterley's Lover</i> is a literary work of importance...I do not think that it could be held obscene, but am in a difficulty here, for the reason that I have never been able to follow the legal definition of obscenity. The law tells me that obscenity may deprave and corrupt, but as far as I know, it offers no definition of depravity or corruption.</p></blockquote> <p>Proponents have sought to justify it using different rationales for various types of information censored: </p> <ul><li>Moral censorship is the removal of materials that are <a href="/wiki/Obscenity" title="Obscenity">obscene</a> or otherwise considered morally questionable. Pornography, for example, is often censored under this rationale, especially <a href="/wiki/Child_pornography" title="Child pornography">child pornography</a>, which is illegal and censored in most jurisdictions in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_censorship" title="Military censorship">Military censorship</a> is the process of keeping <a href="/wiki/Military_intelligence" title="Military intelligence">military intelligence</a> and <a href="/wiki/Military_tactics" title="Military tactics">tactics</a> confidential and away from the enemy. This is used to counter espionage.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_censorship" title="Political censorship">Political censorship</a> occurs when governments hold back information from their citizens. This is often done to exert control over the populace and prevent free expression that might foment <a href="/wiki/Rebellion" title="Rebellion">rebellion</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_by_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Censorship by religion">Religious censorship</a> is the means by which any material considered objectionable by a certain religion is removed. This often involves a dominant religion forcing limitations on less prevalent ones. Alternatively, one religion may shun the works of another when they believe the content is not appropriate for their religion.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corporate_censorship" title="Corporate censorship">Corporate censorship</a> is the process by which editors in corporate media outlets intervene to disrupt the publishing of information that portrays their business or business partners in a negative light,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or intervene to prevent alternate offers from reaching public exposure.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Types">Types</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political">Political</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Political_censorship" title="Political censorship">Political censorship</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Bloc_information_dissemination" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Bloc information dissemination">Eastern Bloc information dissemination</a>, <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Cuba" title="Censorship in Cuba">Censorship in Cuba</a>, <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Censorship in the People's Republic of China">Censorship in the People's Republic of China</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_North_Korea" title="Censorship in North Korea">Censorship in North Korea</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="State_secrets_and_prevention_of_attention">State secrets and prevention of attention</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:WieczorWroclawia20marca1981.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/WieczorWroclawia20marca1981.jpg/220px-WieczorWroclawia20marca1981.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/WieczorWroclawia20marca1981.jpg/330px-WieczorWroclawia20marca1981.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/WieczorWroclawia20marca1981.jpg/440px-WieczorWroclawia20marca1981.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2450" data-file-height="1700" /></a><figcaption>The daily newspaper of <a href="/wiki/Wroc%C5%82aw" title="Wrocław">Wrocław</a>, <a href="/wiki/Polish_People%27s_Republic" title="Polish People's Republic">Polish People's Republic</a>, March 20–21, 1981, with censor intervention on first and last pages – under the headlines "Co się zdarzyło w Bydgoszczy?" (<a href="/wiki/Bydgoszcz_events" title="Bydgoszcz events">What happened in Bydgoszcz?</a>) and "Pogotowie strajkowe w całym kraju" (Country-wide strike alert). The censor had removed a section regarding the strike alert; hence the workers in the printing house blanked out an official propaganda section. The right-hand page also includes a hand-written confirmation of that decision by the local <a href="/wiki/Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union)" title="Solidarity (Polish trade union)">Solidarity trade union</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>In wartime, explicit censorship is carried out with the intent of preventing the release of information that might be useful to an enemy. Typically it involves keeping times or locations secret, or delaying the release of information (e.g., an operational objective) until it is of no possible use to enemy forces. The moral issues here are often seen as somewhat different, as the proponents of this form of censorship argue that the release of tactical information usually presents a greater risk of casualties among one's own forces and could possibly lead to loss of the overall conflict.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>During <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> letters written by British soldiers would have to go through censorship. This consisted of officers going through letters with a black marker and crossing out anything which might compromise operational secrecy before the letter was sent.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> catchphrase "<a href="/wiki/Loose_lips_sink_ships" title="Loose lips sink ships">Loose lips sink ships</a>" was used as a common justification to exercise official wartime censorship and encourage individual restraint when sharing potentially sensitive information.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An example of "<a href="/wiki/Sanitization_(classified_information)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanitization (classified information)">sanitization</a>" policies comes from the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">USSR</a> under <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a>, where publicly used photographs were often altered to remove people whom Stalin had condemned to execution. Though past photographs may have been remembered or kept, this deliberate and systematic alteration to all of history in the public mind is seen as one of the central themes of <a href="/wiki/Stalinism" title="Stalinism">Stalinism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">totalitarianism</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Censorship is occasionally carried out to aid authorities or to protect an individual, as with some kidnappings when attention and media coverage of the victim can sometimes be seen as unhelpful.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion">Religion</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_by_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Censorship by religion">Censorship by religion</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:PynchonBooksBurned.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/PynchonBooksBurned.png/220px-PynchonBooksBurned.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/PynchonBooksBurned.png/330px-PynchonBooksBurned.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/PynchonBooksBurned.png/440px-PynchonBooksBurned.png 2x" data-file-width="861" data-file-height="688" /></a><figcaption>Portrayal of the burning of <a href="/wiki/William_Pynchon" title="William Pynchon">William Pynchon</a>'s 1650 critique on Puritanical Calvinism in Boston by the <a href="/wiki/Puritan" class="mw-redirect" title="Puritan">Puritan</a>-controlled Massachusetts Bay Colony</figcaption></figure> <p>Censorship by religion is a form of censorship where <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_expression" class="mw-redirect" title="Freedom of expression">freedom of expression</a> is controlled or limited using religious authority or on the basis of the teachings of the <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This form of censorship has a long history and is practiced in many societies and by many religions. Examples include the <a href="/wiki/Galileo_affair" title="Galileo affair">Galileo affair</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edict_of_Compi%C3%A8gne" title="Edict of Compiègne">Edict of Compiègne</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum" title="Index Librorum Prohibitorum">Index Librorum Prohibitorum</a> (list of prohibited books) and the condemnation of <a href="/wiki/Salman_Rushdie" title="Salman Rushdie">Salman Rushdie</a>'s novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses" title="The Satanic Verses">The Satanic Verses</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iranian</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Ayatollah_Ruhollah_Khomeini" class="mw-redirect" title="Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini">Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini</a>. Images of the Islamic figure Muhammad are also regularly censored. In some secular countries, this is sometimes done to prevent hurting religious sentiments.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Educational_sources">Educational sources</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Grech_old_russian_censorship.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Grech_old_russian_censorship.jpg/220px-Grech_old_russian_censorship.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Grech_old_russian_censorship.jpg/330px-Grech_old_russian_censorship.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Grech_old_russian_censorship.jpg/440px-Grech_old_russian_censorship.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3544" data-file-height="2424" /></a><figcaption>Historic <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russian</a> censorship. Book <i>Notes of my life by <a href="/wiki/Nikolay_Gretsch" title="Nikolay Gretsch">N.I. Grech</a></i>, published in St. Petersburg 1886 by A.S. Suvorin. The censored text was replaced by dots.</figcaption></figure> <p>The content of school textbooks is often an issue of debate, since their target audiences are young people. The term <a href="/wiki/Whitewashing_(censorship)" class="mw-redirect" title="Whitewashing (censorship)">whitewashing</a> is commonly used to refer to revisionism aimed at glossing over difficult or questionable historical events, or a biased presentation thereof. The <a href="/wiki/Historical_revisionism_(negationism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Historical revisionism (negationism)">reporting of military atrocities in history</a> is extremely controversial, as in the case of <a href="/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">the Holocaust</a> (or <a href="/wiki/Holocaust_denial" title="Holocaust denial">Holocaust denial</a>), <a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden" title="Bombing of Dresden">Bombing of Dresden</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Nanking_Massacre" class="mw-redirect" title="Nanking Massacre">Nanking Massacre</a> as found with <a href="/wiki/Japanese_history_textbook_controversies" title="Japanese history textbook controversies">Japanese history textbook controversies</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Armenian_genocide" title="Armenian genocide">Armenian genocide</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989" class="mw-redirect" title="Tiananmen Square protests of 1989">Tiananmen Square protests of 1989</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Winter_Soldier_Investigation" title="Winter Soldier Investigation">Winter Soldier Investigation</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>. </p><p>In the context of secondary school education, the way facts and history are presented greatly influences the interpretation of contemporary thought, opinion and socialization. One argument for censoring the type of information disseminated is based on the inappropriate quality of such material for the younger public. The use of the "inappropriate" distinction is in itself controversial, as it changed heavily. A Ballantine Books version of the book <i><a href="/wiki/Fahrenheit_451" title="Fahrenheit 451">Fahrenheit 451</a></i> which is the version used by most school classes<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> contained approximately 75 separate edits, omissions, and changes from the original Bradbury manuscript. </p><p>In February 2006, a <i><a href="/wiki/National_Geographic_(magazine)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Geographic (magazine)">National Geographic</a></i> cover was censored by the <a href="/wiki/Nashravaran_Journalistic_Institute" title="Nashravaran Journalistic Institute">Nashravaran Journalistic Institute</a>. The offending cover was about the subject of <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> and a picture of an embracing couple was hidden beneath a white sticker.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Economic_induced_censorship">Economic induced censorship</h3></div> <p>Economic induced censorship is a type of censorship enacted by economic markets to favor, and disregard, types of information. Economic induced censorship is also caused by market forces which privatize and establish commodification of certain information that is not accessible by the general public, primarily because of the cost associated with commodified information such as academic journals, industry reports and pay to use repositories.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The concept was illustrated as a censorship pyramid<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that was conceptualized by primarily <a href="/wiki/Julian_Assange" title="Julian Assange">Julian Assange</a>, along with <a href="/wiki/Andy_M%C3%BCller-Maguhn" title="Andy Müller-Maguhn">Andy Müller-Maguhn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum" title="Jacob Appelbaum">Jacob Appelbaum</a> and <a href="/wiki/J%C3%A9r%C3%A9mie_Zimmermann" title="Jérémie Zimmermann">Jérémie Zimmermann</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Cypherpunks_(book)" title="Cypherpunks (book)">Cypherpunks (book)</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Self-censorship">Self-censorship</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Censored_section_of_Green_Illusions_by_Ozzie_Zehner.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Censored_section_of_Green_Illusions_by_Ozzie_Zehner.jpg/220px-Censored_section_of_Green_Illusions_by_Ozzie_Zehner.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Censored_section_of_Green_Illusions_by_Ozzie_Zehner.jpg/330px-Censored_section_of_Green_Illusions_by_Ozzie_Zehner.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Censored_section_of_Green_Illusions_by_Ozzie_Zehner.jpg/440px-Censored_section_of_Green_Illusions_by_Ozzie_Zehner.jpg 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="720" /></a><figcaption>Author <a href="/wiki/Ozzie_Zehner" title="Ozzie Zehner">Ozzie Zehner</a> <a href="/wiki/Self-censorship" title="Self-censorship">self-censored</a> the American edition of his environmental book, <i>Green Illusions</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> fearing <a href="/wiki/Food_libel_laws" title="Food libel laws">food libel laws</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Putin_palace_luxury_furniture_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Putin_palace_luxury_furniture_2.jpg/200px-Putin_palace_luxury_furniture_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Putin_palace_luxury_furniture_2.jpg/300px-Putin_palace_luxury_furniture_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Putin_palace_luxury_furniture_2.jpg/400px-Putin_palace_luxury_furniture_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2736" data-file-height="3648" /></a><figcaption>A person in <a href="/wiki/Putin%27s_Palace" title="Putin's Palace">Putin's Palace</a> has had their face and reflection obscured presumably to prevent retaliation for distributing such photos.</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Self-censorship" title="Self-censorship">Self-censorship</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mincensored.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Mincensored.jpg/220px-Mincensored.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Mincensored.jpg/330px-Mincensored.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Mincensored.jpg/440px-Mincensored.jpg 2x" data-file-width="883" data-file-height="574" /></a><figcaption>Ithyphallic god <a href="/wiki/Min_(god)" title="Min (god)">Min</a>, tumescence obscured </figcaption></figure> <p>Self-censorship is the act of censoring or <a href="/wiki/Classified_Information" class="mw-redirect" title="Classified Information">classifying</a> one's own discourse. This is done out of fear of, or deference to, the sensibilities or preferences (actual or perceived) of others and without overt pressure from any specific party or institution of authority. Self-censorship is often practiced by <a href="/wiki/Film_producer" title="Film producer">film producers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Film_director" title="Film director">film directors</a>, <a href="/wiki/Publisher" class="mw-redirect" title="Publisher">publishers</a>, <a href="/wiki/News_anchor" class="mw-redirect" title="News anchor">news anchors</a>, <a href="/wiki/Journalist" title="Journalist">journalists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Musician" title="Musician">musicians</a>, and other kinds of <a href="/wiki/Author" title="Author">authors</a> including individuals who use <a href="/wiki/Social_media" title="Social media">social media</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to a <a href="/wiki/Pew_Research_Center" title="Pew Research Center">Pew Research Center</a> and the <i><a href="/wiki/Columbia_Journalism_Review" title="Columbia Journalism Review">Columbia Journalism Review</a></i> survey, "About one-quarter of the local and national journalists say they have purposely avoided newsworthy stories, while nearly as many acknowledge they have softened the tone of stories to benefit the interests of their news organizations. Fully four-in-ten (41%) admit they have engaged in either or both of these practices."<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Threats to media freedom have shown a significant increase in Europe in recent years, according to a study published in April 2017 by the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Europe" title="Council of Europe">Council of Europe</a>. This results in a fear of physical or psychological violence, and the ultimate result is self-censorship by journalists.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Copy,_picture,_and_writer_approval"><span id="Copy.2C_picture.2C_and_writer_approval"></span>Copy, picture, and writer approval</h3></div> <p>Copy approval is the right to read and amend an article, usually an interview, before publication. Many publications refuse to give copy approval but it is increasingly becoming common practice when dealing with publicity anxious celebrities.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Picture approval is the right given to an individual to choose which photos will be published and which will not. <a href="/wiki/Robert_Redford" title="Robert Redford">Robert Redford</a> is well known for insisting upon picture approval.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Writer approval is when writers are chosen based on whether they will write flattering articles or not. Hollywood publicist Pat Kingsley is known for banning certain writers who wrote undesirably about one of her clients from interviewing any of her other clients.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2008)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reverse_censorship">Reverse censorship</h3></div> <p>Flooding the public, often through online <a href="/wiki/Social_network" title="Social network">social networks</a>, with false or misleading information is sometimes called "reverse censorship". American legal scholar <a href="/wiki/Tim_Wu" title="Tim Wu">Tim Wu</a> has explained that this type of information control, sometimes by <a href="/wiki/State_actor" class="mw-redirect" title="State actor">state actors</a>, can "distort or drown out disfavored speech through the creation and dissemination of <a href="/wiki/Fake_news" title="Fake news">fake news</a>, the payment of fake commentators, and the deployment of propaganda <a href="/wiki/Internet_bot" title="Internet bot">robots</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Soft_censorship">Soft censorship</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Media_manipulation" title="Media manipulation">Media manipulation</a> and <a href="/wiki/Independent_media#Influences_in_media_systems" title="Independent media">Independent media § Influences in media systems</a></div> <p>Soft, or indirect, censorship is the practice of influencing news coverage by applying financial pressure on media companies that are deemed critical of a government or its policies and rewarding media outlets and individual journalists who are seen as friendly to the government.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="By_media">By media</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Expand_section plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="[icon]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/20px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/30px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/40px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="44" data-file-height="31" /></a></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs expansion</b> with: Television and News Media censorship. You can help by <span class="anonymous-show"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3ACensorship&preload=Template%3ASubmit+an+edit+request%2Fpreload&action=edit&section=new&editintro=Template%3AEdit+protected%2Feditintro&preloadtitle=Protected+edit+request+on+24+November+2024&preloadparams%5B%5D=edit+fully-protected&preloadparams%5B%5D=Censorship">making an edit request</a></span></span><span class="user-show"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Censorship&action=edit&section=">adding to it</a> </span>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">May 2020</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Book_censorship" title="Book censorship">Book censorship</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1933-may-10-berlin-book-burning.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/1933-may-10-berlin-book-burning.JPG/220px-1933-may-10-berlin-book-burning.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/1933-may-10-berlin-book-burning.JPG/330px-1933-may-10-berlin-book-burning.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/1933-may-10-berlin-book-burning.JPG/440px-1933-may-10-berlin-book-burning.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1507" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings" title="Nazi book burnings">Nazi book burning</a> in Berlin, May 1933</figcaption></figure> <p>Book censorship can be enacted at the national or sub-national level, and can carry legal penalties for their infraction. Books may also be challenged at a local, community level. As a result, books can be removed from schools or libraries, although these bans do not typically extend outside of that area. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Films">Films</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Film_censorship" title="Film censorship">Film censorship</a></div> <p>Aside from the usual justifications of pornography and <a href="/wiki/Obscenity" title="Obscenity">obscenity</a>, some films are censored due to changing racial attitudes or <a href="/wiki/Political_correctness" title="Political correctness">political correctness</a> in order to avoid <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_stereotype" title="Ethnic stereotype">ethnic stereotyping</a> and/or ethnic offense despite its historical or artistic value. One example is the still withdrawn "<a href="/wiki/Censored_Eleven" title="Censored Eleven">Censored Eleven</a>" series of animated cartoons, which may have been innocent then, but are "incorrect" now.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Film censorship is carried out by various countries. Film censorship is achieved by censoring the producer or restricting a state citizen. For example, in China the film industry censors <a href="/wiki/Censorship_of_LGBT_issues" class="mw-redirect" title="Censorship of LGBT issues">LGBT-related films</a>. Filmmakers must resort to finding funds from international investors such as the "Ford Foundations" and or produce through an independent film company.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Music">Music</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_of_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Censorship of music">Censorship of music</a></div> <p>Music censorship has been implemented by states, religions, educational systems, families, retailers and lobbying groups – and in most cases they violate international conventions of human rights.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Maps">Maps</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_of_maps" class="mw-redirect" title="Censorship of maps">Censorship of maps</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cartographic_censorship" title="Cartographic censorship">Cartographic censorship</a></div> <p>Censorship of maps is often employed for military purposes. For example, the technique was used in former <a href="/wiki/East_Germany" title="East Germany">East Germany</a>, especially for the areas near the border to <a href="/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany">West Germany</a> in order to make attempts of defection more difficult. Censorship of maps is also applied by <a href="/wiki/Google_Maps" title="Google Maps">Google Maps</a>, where certain areas are grayed out or blacked or areas are purposely left outdated with old imagery.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Art">Art</h3></div> <p>Art is loved and feared because of its evocative power. Destroying or oppressing art can potentially justify its meaning even more.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>British photographer and visual artist <a href="/wiki/Graham_Ovenden" title="Graham Ovenden">Graham Ovenden</a>'s photos and paintings were ordered to be destroyed by a London's magistrate court in 2015 for being "indecent"<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and their copies had been removed from the online <a href="/wiki/Tate_Britain" title="Tate Britain">Tate gallery</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Palestine.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_Palestine.svg/220px-Flag_of_Palestine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_Palestine.svg/330px-Flag_of_Palestine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_Palestine.svg/440px-Flag_of_Palestine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Artworks using these four colors were banned by Israeli law in the 1980s. This ban ended in 1993.</figcaption></figure> <p>A 1980 Israeli law forbade banned <a href="/wiki/Visual_art" class="mw-redirect" title="Visual art">artwork</a> composed of the four colours of the <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_flag" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian flag">Palestinian flag</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Palestinians were arrested for displaying such artwork or even for carrying sliced melons with the same pattern.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tania_bruguera.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Tania_bruguera.jpg/170px-Tania_bruguera.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="232" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Tania_bruguera.jpg/255px-Tania_bruguera.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Tania_bruguera.jpg 2x" data-file-width="289" data-file-height="394" /></a><figcaption>Cuban artist Tania Bruguera</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Moath_al-Alwi" title="Moath al-Alwi">Moath al-Alwi</a> is a Guantanamo Bay prisoner who creates <a href="/wiki/Model_ship" class="mw-redirect" title="Model ship">model ships</a> as an expression of art. Alwi does so with the few tools he has at his disposal such as dental floss and shampoo bottles, and he is also allowed to use a small pair of scissors with rounded edges.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A few of Alwi's pieces are on display at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. There are also other artworks on display at the College that were created by other inmates. The artwork that is being displayed might be the only way for some of the inmates to communicate with the outside. Recently things have changed though. The military has come up with a new policy that will not allow the artwork at Guantanamo Bay Military Prison to leave the prison. The artwork created by Alwi and other prisoners is now government property and can be destroyed or disposed of in whatever way the government choose, making it no longer the artist's property.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Around 300 artists in Cuba are fighting for their artistic freedom due to new censorship rules Cuba's government has in place for artists. In December 2018, following the introduction of new rules that would ban music performances and artwork not authorized by the state, <a href="/wiki/Performance_art" title="Performance art">performance artist</a> <a href="/wiki/Tania_Bruguera" title="Tania Bruguera">Tania Bruguera</a> was detained upon arriving to Havana and released after four days.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ausstellung_entartete_kunst_1937.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Nazi art show" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Ausstellung_entartete_kunst_1937.jpg/220px-Ausstellung_entartete_kunst_1937.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Ausstellung_entartete_kunst_1937.jpg/330px-Ausstellung_entartete_kunst_1937.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Ausstellung_entartete_kunst_1937.jpg/440px-Ausstellung_entartete_kunst_1937.jpg 2x" data-file-width="776" data-file-height="561" /></a><figcaption>The Degenerate Art Exhibition</figcaption></figure> <p>An example of extreme state censorship was the Nazis' requirements of using art as propaganda. Art was only allowed to be used as a political instrument to control people and failure to act in accordance with the censors was punishable by law, even fatal. The <a href="/wiki/Degenerate_Art_Exhibition" class="mw-redirect" title="Degenerate Art Exhibition">Degenerate Art Exhibition</a> was a historical instance of this, the goal of which was to advertise Nazi values and slander others.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Internet">Internet</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship" title="Internet censorship">Internet censorship</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Internet_Censorship_and_Surveillance_World_Map.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Internet_Censorship_and_Surveillance_World_Map.svg/440px-Internet_Censorship_and_Surveillance_World_Map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="440" height="226" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Internet_Censorship_and_Surveillance_World_Map.svg/660px-Internet_Censorship_and_Surveillance_World_Map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Internet_Censorship_and_Surveillance_World_Map.svg/880px-Internet_Censorship_and_Surveillance_World_Map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="863" data-file-height="443" /></a><figcaption><b><a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_surveillance_by_country" title="Internet censorship and surveillance by country">Internet censorship and surveillance by country</a> (2018)</b><sup id="cite_ref-FOTN-2018_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOTN-2018-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 15em;"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#F9D; color:black;"> </span> Pervasive</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#FDD; color:black;"> </span> Substantial</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#FFD; color:black;"> </span> Selective</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#98FB98; color:black;"> </span> Little or no</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#e0e0e0; color:black;"> </span> Not classified / No data</div> </div> </figcaption></figure> <p>Internet censorship is control or suppression of the publishing or accessing of information on <a href="/wiki/The_Internet" class="mw-redirect" title="The Internet">the Internet</a>. It may be carried out by governments or by private organizations either at the behest of the government or on their own initiative. Individuals and organizations may engage in <a href="/wiki/Self-censorship" title="Self-censorship">self-censorship</a> on their own or due to intimidation and fear. </p><p>The issues associated with Internet censorship are similar to those for offline censorship of more traditional media. One difference is that national borders are more permeable online: residents of a country that bans certain information can find it on websites hosted outside the country. Thus censors must work to prevent access to information even though they lack physical or legal control over the websites themselves. This in turn requires the use of technical censorship methods that are unique to the Internet, such as site blocking and content filtering.<sup id="cite_ref-UNESCO-2011_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNESCO-2011-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Furthermore, the <a href="/wiki/Domain_Name_System" title="Domain Name System">Domain Name System</a> (DNS) a critical component of the Internet is dominated by centralized and few entities. The most widely used DNS root is administered by the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Corporation_for_Assigned_Names_and_Numbers" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers">Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers</a> (ICANN).<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As an administrator they have rights to shut down and seize <a href="/wiki/Domain_name" title="Domain name">domain names</a> when they deem necessary to do so and at most times the direction is from governments. This has been the case with <a href="/wiki/WikiLeaks" title="WikiLeaks">Wikileaks</a> shutdowns<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and name seizure events such as the ones executed by the <a href="/wiki/National_Intellectual_Property_Rights_Coordination_Center" title="National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center">National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center</a> (IPR Center) managed by the <a href="/wiki/Homeland_Security_Investigations" class="mw-redirect" title="Homeland Security Investigations">Homeland Security Investigations</a> (HSI).<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This makes it easy for internet censorship by authorities as they have control over what should or should not be on the Internet. Some activists and researchers have started opting for <a href="/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root" title="Alternative DNS root">alternative DNS roots</a>, though the Internet Architecture Board<sup id="cite_ref-rfc2826_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rfc2826-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (IAB) does not support these DNS root providers. </p><p>Unless the censor has total control over all Internet-connected computers, such as in <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_North_Korea" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet censorship in North Korea">North Korea</a> or <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_cuba" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet censorship in cuba">Cuba</a>, total censorship of information is very difficult or impossible to achieve due to the underlying distributed technology of the Internet. <a href="/wiki/Pseudonymity" class="mw-redirect" title="Pseudonymity">Pseudonymity</a> and <a href="/wiki/Data_haven" title="Data haven">data havens</a> (such as <a href="/wiki/Freenet" class="mw-redirect" title="Freenet">Freenet</a>) protect <a href="/wiki/Free_speech" class="mw-redirect" title="Free speech">free speech</a> using technologies that guarantee material cannot be removed and prevents the identification of authors. Technologically savvy users can often find ways to <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_circumvention" title="Internet censorship circumvention">access blocked content</a>. Nevertheless, blocking remains an effective means of limiting access to sensitive information for most users when censors, such as those in <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China">China</a>, are able to devote significant resources to building and maintaining a comprehensive censorship system.<sup id="cite_ref-UNESCO-2011_59-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNESCO-2011-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Views about the feasibility and effectiveness of Internet censorship have evolved in parallel with the development of the Internet and censorship technologies: </p> <ul><li>A 1993 <i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i> magazine article quotes computer scientist <a href="/wiki/John_Gilmore_(activist)" title="John Gilmore (activist)">John Gillmore</a>, one of the founders of the <a href="/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation" title="Electronic Frontier Foundation">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a>, as saying "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In November 2007, "Father of the Internet" <a href="/wiki/Vint_Cerf" title="Vint Cerf">Vint Cerf</a> stated that he sees government control of the Internet failing because the Web is almost entirely privately owned.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A report of research conducted in 2007 and published in 2009 by the Beckman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University stated that: "We are confident that the [censorship circumvention] tool developers will for the most part keep ahead of the governments' blocking efforts", but also that "...we believe that less than two percent of all filtered Internet users use circumvention tools".<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In contrast, a 2011 report by researchers at the <a href="/wiki/Oxford_Internet_Institute" title="Oxford Internet Institute">Oxford Internet Institute</a> published by <a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a> concludes "... the control of information on the Internet and Web is certainly feasible, and technological advances do not therefore guarantee greater freedom of speech."<sup id="cite_ref-UNESCO-2011_59-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNESCO-2011-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship#BBC_World_Service_global_public_opinion_poll" title="Internet censorship">BBC World Service poll</a> of 27,973 adults in 26 countries, including 14,306 Internet users,<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was conducted between 30 November 2009 and 7 February 2010. The head of the polling organization felt, overall, that the poll showed that: </p> <dl><dd>Despite worries about privacy and fraud, people around the world see access to the internet as their fundamental right. They think the web is a force for good, and most don't want governments to regulate it.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p>The poll found that nearly four in five (78%) Internet users felt that the Internet had brought them greater freedom, that most Internet users (53%) felt that "the internet should never be regulated by any level of government anywhere", and almost four in five Internet users and non-users around the world felt that access to the Internet was a fundamental right (50% strongly agreed, 29% somewhat agreed, 9% somewhat disagreed, 6% strongly disagreed, and 6% gave no opinion).<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Social_media">Social media</h4></div> <p>The rising use of social media in many nations has led to the emergence of citizens organizing protests through social media, sometimes called "<a href="/wiki/Twitter_Revolution_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect" title="Twitter Revolution (disambiguation)">Twitter Revolutions</a>". The most notable of these social media-led protests were the <a href="/wiki/Social_media_and_the_Arab_Spring" class="mw-redirect" title="Social media and the Arab Spring">Arab Spring uprisings</a>, starting in 2010. In response to the use of social media in these protests, the Tunisian government began a hack of Tunisian citizens' Facebook accounts, and reports arose of accounts being deleted.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Automated systems can be used to censor <a href="/wiki/Social_media" title="Social media">social media</a> posts, and therefore limit what citizens can say online. This most notably occurs in <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_China" title="Censorship in China">China</a>, where social media posts are automatically censored depending on content. In 2013, Harvard political science professor <a href="/wiki/Gary_King_(political_scientist)" title="Gary King (political scientist)">Gary King</a> led a study to determine what caused social media posts to be censored and found that posts mentioning the government were not more or less likely to be deleted if they were supportive or critical of the government. Posts mentioning collective action were more likely to be deleted than those that had not mentioned collective action.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Currently, social media censorship appears primarily as a way to restrict Internet users' ability to organize protests. For the Chinese government, seeing citizens unhappy with local governance is beneficial as state and national leaders can replace unpopular officials. King and his researchers were able to predict when certain officials would be removed based on the number of unfavorable social media posts.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Research has proved that criticism is tolerable on social media sites, therefore it is not censored unless it has a higher chance of collective action. It is not important whether the criticism is supportive or unsupportive of the states' leaders, the main priority of censoring certain social media posts is to make sure that no big actions are being made due to something that was said on the internet. Posts that challenge the Party's political leading role in the Chinese government are more likely to be censored due to the challenges it poses to the Chinese Communist Party.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2022 <a href="/wiki/Elon_Musk" title="Elon Musk">Elon Musk</a>, owner and CEO of <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a> released internal documents from the social media microblogging site to journalists <a href="/wiki/Matt_Taibbi" title="Matt Taibbi">Matt Taibbi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Shellenberger" title="Michael Shellenberger">Michael Shellenberger</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bari_Weiss" title="Bari Weiss">Bari Weiss</a>. The analysis of these files on Twitter, collectively called, the <a href="/wiki/Twitter_Files" title="Twitter Files">Twitter Files</a>, explored the content moderation and visibility filtering carried out in collaboration with the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Hunter_Biden_laptop_controversy" title="Hunter Biden laptop controversy">Hunter Biden laptop controversy</a>. </p><p>On the platform TikTok, certain hashtags have been categorized by the platform's code and determines how viewers can or cannot interact with the content or hashtag specifically. Some shadowbanned tags include: #acab, #GayArab, #gej due to their referencing of certain social movements and LGBTQ identity. As TikTok guidelines are becoming more localized around the world, some experts believe that this could result in more censorship than before.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Video_games">Video games</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Video_game_censorship" title="Video game censorship">Video game censorship</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_regionally_censored_video_games" title="List of regionally censored video games">List of regionally censored video games</a></div> <p>Since the early 1980s, advocates of video games have emphasized their use as an <a href="/wiki/Games_as_art" class="mw-redirect" title="Games as art">expressive medium</a>, arguing for their protection under the laws governing <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_speech" title="Freedom of speech">freedom of speech</a> and also as an educational tool. Detractors argue that video games are <a href="/wiki/Harm_principle" title="Harm principle">harmful</a> and therefore should be <a href="/wiki/Free_speech_limitations" class="mw-redirect" title="Free speech limitations">subject to legislative oversight and restrictions</a>. Many video games have certain elements removed or edited due to <a href="/wiki/Video_game_content_rating_system" title="Video game content rating system">regional rating standards</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, in the Japanese and PAL Versions of <i><a href="/wiki/No_More_Heroes_(video_game)" title="No More Heroes (video game)">No More Heroes</a></i>, blood splatter and gore is removed from the gameplay. Decapitation scenes are implied, but not shown. Scenes of missing body parts after having been cut off, are replaced with the same scene, but showing the body parts fully intact.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Impact_of_surveillance">Impact of surveillance</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Surveillance" title="Surveillance">Surveillance</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mass_surveillance" title="Mass surveillance">Mass surveillance</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Computer_and_network_surveillance" title="Computer and network surveillance">Computer and network surveillance</a></div> <p>Surveillance and censorship are different. Surveillance can be performed without censorship, but it is harder to engage in censorship without some form of surveillance.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even when surveillance does not lead directly to censorship, the widespread knowledge or belief that a person, their computer, or their use of the Internet is under surveillance can have a "<a href="/wiki/Chilling_effect" title="Chilling effect">chilling effect</a>" and lead to self-censorship.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Implementation">Implementation</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Censuraindex.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Censuraindex.jpg/220px-Censuraindex.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="321" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Censuraindex.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="280" data-file-height="408" /></a><figcaption>Censored pre-press proof of two articles from <i>Notícias da Amadora</i>, a <a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portuguese</a> newspaper, 1970</figcaption></figure> <p>The former Soviet Union maintained a particularly extensive program of state-imposed censorship. The main organ for official censorship in the Soviet Union was the <i>Chief Agency for Protection of Military and State Secrets</i> generally known as the <i><a href="/wiki/Main_Administration_for_Safeguarding_State_Secrets_in_the_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="Main Administration for Safeguarding State Secrets in the Press">Glavlit</a></i>, its Russian acronym. The <i>Glavlit</i> handled censorship matters arising from domestic writings of just about any kind – even beer and vodka labels. <i>Glavlit</i> censorship personnel were present in every large Soviet publishing house or newspaper; the agency employed some 70,000 censors to review information before it was disseminated by publishing houses, editorial offices, and broadcasting studios. No mass medium escaped <i>Glavlit</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s control. All press agencies and radio and television stations had <i>Glavlit</i> representatives on their editorial staffs.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sometimes, public knowledge of the existence of a specific document is subtly suppressed, a situation resembling censorship. The authorities taking such action will justify it by declaring the work to be "<a href="/wiki/Subversion_(politics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Subversion (politics)">subversive</a>" or "inconvenient". An example is <a href="/wiki/Michel_Foucault" title="Michel Foucault">Michel Foucault</a>'s 1978 text <i>Sexual Morality and the Law</i> (later republished as <i>The Danger of Child Sexuality</i>), originally published as <i>La loi de la pudeur</i> [literally, "the law of decency"]. This work defends the decriminalization of <a href="/wiki/Statutory_rape" title="Statutory rape">statutory rape</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Age_of_consent_reform" title="Age of consent reform">abolition of age of consent laws</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>When a publisher comes under pressure to suppress a book, but has already entered into a contract with the author, they will sometimes effectively censor the book by deliberately ordering a small print run and making minimal, if any, attempts to publicize it. This practice became known in the early 2000s as <i>privishing</i> (<b>priv</b>ate publ<b>ishing</b>).<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> an <a href="/wiki/OpenNet_Initiative" title="OpenNet Initiative">OpenNet Initiative</a> (ONI) classifications:<sup id="cite_ref-ONICountryProfiles_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ONICountryProfiles-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="By_country">By country</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_by_country" title="Censorship by country">Censorship by country</a></div> <p>Censorship for individual countries is measured by <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_the_Press_(report)" title="Freedom of the Press (report)">Freedom House (FH) <i>Freedom of the Press</i> report</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index" class="mw-redirect" title="Press Freedom Index">Reporters Without Borders (RWB) <i>Press freedom index</i></a><sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/V-Dem_Democracy_indices" class="mw-redirect" title="V-Dem Democracy indices">V-Dem</a> government censorship effort index. Censorship aspects are measured by Freedom on the Net<sup id="cite_ref-FOTN-2018_54-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOTN-2018-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/OpenNet_Initiative" title="OpenNet Initiative">OpenNet Initiative</a> (ONI) classifications.<sup id="cite_ref-ONICountryProfiles_83-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ONICountryProfiles-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Censorship_by_country" title="Censorship by country">Censorship by country</a> collects information on censorship, <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship" title="Internet censorship">internet censorship</a>, <a href="/wiki/Press_freedom" class="mw-redirect" title="Press freedom">press freedom</a>, <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_speech" title="Freedom of speech">freedom of speech</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Human_rights" title="Human rights">human rights</a> by country and presents it in a sortable table, together with links to articles with more information. In addition to countries, the table includes information on former countries, disputed countries, political sub-units within countries, and regional organizations. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Australia">Australia</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Australia" title="Censorship in Australia">Censorship in Australia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Australia" title="Internet censorship in Australia">Internet censorship in Australia</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Belgium">Belgium</h3></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/French-speaking_Belgium" class="mw-redirect" title="French-speaking Belgium">French-speaking Belgium</a>, politicians considered <a href="/wiki/Far-right" class="mw-redirect" title="Far-right">far-right</a> are <a href="/wiki/Cordon_sanitaire_m%C3%A9diatique" class="mw-redirect" title="Cordon sanitaire médiatique">banned</a> from live media appearances such as interviews or debates.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Canada">Canada</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Canada" title="Censorship in Canada">Censorship in Canada</a> and <a href="/wiki/Book_censorship_in_Canada" title="Book censorship in Canada">Book censorship in Canada</a></div> <p>Very little is formally censored in Canada, aside from "<a href="/wiki/Obscenity" title="Obscenity">obscenity</a>" (as defined in the landmark criminal case of <i><a href="/wiki/R_v_Butler" title="R v Butler">R v Butler</a></i>) which is generally limited to <a href="/wiki/Pornography" title="Pornography">pornography</a> and <a href="/wiki/Child_pornography" title="Child pornography">child pornography</a> depicting and/or advocating non-consensual sex, sexual violence, degradation, or dehumanization, in particular that which causes harm (as in <i><a href="/wiki/R_v_Labaye" title="R v Labaye">R v Labaye</a></i>). Most films are simply subject to classification by the <a href="/wiki/British_Columbia_Film_Classification_Office" title="British Columbia Film Classification Office">British Columbia Film Classification Office</a> under the non-profit <a href="/wiki/Crown_corporation" title="Crown corporation">Crown corporation</a> by the name of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Consumer_Protection_BC&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Consumer Protection BC (page does not exist)">Consumer Protection BC</a>, whose classifications are officially used by the provinces of <a href="/wiki/British_Columbia" title="British Columbia">British Columbia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saskatchewan" title="Saskatchewan">Saskatchewan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">Ontario</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Manitoba" title="Manitoba">Manitoba</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cuba">Cuba</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Cuba" title="Censorship in Cuba">Censorship in Cuba</a> and <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Cuba" title="Internet censorship in Cuba">Internet censorship in Cuba</a></div> <p>Cuban media used to be operated under the supervision of the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Cuba" title="Communist Party of Cuba">Communist Party's</a> <i>Department of Revolutionary Orientation</i>, which "develops and coordinates propaganda strategies".<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Connection to the Internet is restricted and censored.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="China">China</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_China" title="Censorship in China">Censorship in China</a>, <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_China" title="Internet censorship in China">Internet censorship in China</a>, <a href="/wiki/Film_censorship_in_China" title="Film censorship in China">Film censorship in China</a>, <a href="/wiki/Book_censorship_in_China" title="Book censorship in China">Book censorship in China</a>, <a href="/wiki/Blood_censorship_in_China" title="Blood censorship in China">Blood censorship in China</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Radio_jamming_in_China" title="Radio jamming in China">Radio jamming in China</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Censorship in the People's Republic of China">People's Republic of China</a> employs sophisticated censorship mechanisms, referred to as the <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China#Golden_Shield_Project" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China">Golden Shield Project</a>, to monitor the internet. Popular search engines such as <a href="/wiki/Baidu" title="Baidu">Baidu</a> also remove politically sensitive search results.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Eastern_Bloc">Eastern Bloc</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Bloc_media_and_propaganda" title="Eastern Bloc media and propaganda">Eastern Bloc media and propaganda</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Karta_s_fotografi%C3%AD_%C5%A1kpt._Sergeje_Petrase_a_%C5%A1kpt._Josefa_Bur%C5%A1%C3%ADka.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Karta_s_fotografi%C3%AD_%C5%A1kpt._Sergeje_Petrase_a_%C5%A1kpt._Josefa_Bur%C5%A1%C3%ADka.png/220px-Karta_s_fotografi%C3%AD_%C5%A1kpt._Sergeje_Petrase_a_%C5%A1kpt._Josefa_Bur%C5%A1%C3%ADka.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="184" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Karta_s_fotografi%C3%AD_%C5%A1kpt._Sergeje_Petrase_a_%C5%A1kpt._Josefa_Bur%C5%A1%C3%ADka.png/330px-Karta_s_fotografi%C3%AD_%C5%A1kpt._Sergeje_Petrase_a_%C5%A1kpt._Josefa_Bur%C5%A1%C3%ADka.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Karta_s_fotografi%C3%AD_%C5%A1kpt._Sergeje_Petrase_a_%C5%A1kpt._Josefa_Bur%C5%A1%C3%ADka.png/440px-Karta_s_fotografi%C3%AD_%C5%A1kpt._Sergeje_Petrase_a_%C5%A1kpt._Josefa_Bur%C5%A1%C3%ADka.png 2x" data-file-width="3032" data-file-height="2540" /></a><figcaption>Photo of Capt. Sergej Petras and Capt. <a href="/wiki/Josef_Bur%C5%A1%C3%ADk" title="Josef Buršík">Josef Buršík</a> from 1945. Buršík was strongly <a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia" title="Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia">against the invasion in 1968 to Czechoslovakia</a>, so it was allowed to publish only the left half of the picture, Buršík was removed.</figcaption></figure> <p>Strict censorship existed in the Eastern Bloc.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Throughout the bloc, the various ministries of culture held a tight rein on their writers.<sup id="cite_ref-major15_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-major15-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cultural products there reflected the propaganda needs of the state.<sup id="cite_ref-major15_95-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-major15-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Party-approved censors exercised strict control in the early years.<sup id="cite_ref-crampton247_96-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crampton247-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the Stalinist period, even the weather forecasts were changed if they suggested that the sun might not shine on <a href="/wiki/May_Day" title="May Day">May Day</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-crampton247_96-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crampton247-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under <a href="/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C5%9Fescu" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicolae Ceauşescu">Nicolae Ceauşescu</a> in <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Romania" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Republic of Romania">Romania</a>, weather reports were doctored so that the temperatures were not seen to rise above or fall below the levels which dictated that work must stop.<sup id="cite_ref-crampton247_96-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crampton247-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Possession and use of <a href="/wiki/Copy_machine" class="mw-redirect" title="Copy machine">copying machines</a> was tightly controlled in order to hinder the production and distribution of <a href="/wiki/Samizdat" title="Samizdat">samizdat</a>, illegal <a href="/wiki/Self-publishing" title="Self-publishing">self-published</a> books and magazines. Possession of even a single samizdat manuscript such as a book by <a href="/wiki/Andrei_Sinyavsky" title="Andrei Sinyavsky">Andrei Sinyavsky</a> was a serious crime which might involve a visit from the <a href="/wiki/KGB" title="KGB">KGB</a>. Another outlet for works which did not find favor with the authorities was publishing abroad. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="France">France</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_France" title="Censorship in France">Censorship in France</a> and <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_France" title="Internet censorship in France">Internet censorship in France</a></div> <p>Amid declining car sales in 2020, France banned a television ad by a Dutch bike company, saying the ad "unfairly discredited the automobile industry".<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="India">India</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_India" title="Censorship in India">Censorship in India</a>, <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India" title="Internet censorship in India">Internet censorship in India</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Book_censorship_in_India" title="Book censorship in India">Book censorship in India</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_India" title="Constitution of India">Constitution of India</a> guarantees <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_expression_in_India" title="Freedom of expression in India">freedom of expression</a>, but places <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_expression_in_India#Restrictions" title="Freedom of expression in India">certain restrictions</a> on content, with a view towards maintaining communal and religious harmony, given the history of communal tension in the nation.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the Information Technology Rules 2011, objectionable content includes anything that "threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign states or public order".<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Notably many pornographic websites are blocked in India. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Iran">Iran</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Iran" title="Censorship in Iran">Censorship in Iran</a>, <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Iran" title="Internet censorship in Iran">Internet censorship in Iran</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Book_censorship_in_Iran" title="Book censorship in Iran">Book censorship in Iran</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Iraq">Iraq</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Iraq" title="Censorship in Iraq">Censorship in Iraq</a> and <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet censorship in Iraq">Internet censorship in Iraq</a></div> <p>Iraq under <a href="/wiki/Baathist" class="mw-redirect" title="Baathist">Baathist</a> <a href="/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein">Saddam Hussein</a> had much the same techniques of press censorship as did Romania under Nicolae Ceauşescu but with greater potential violence.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Japan">Japan</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Japan" title="Censorship in Japan">Censorship in Japan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet censorship in Japan">Internet censorship in Japan</a></div> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Commander_for_the_Allied_Powers" title="Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers">GHQ</a> occupation of Japan after WW2, any criticism of the Allies' pre-war policies, the SCAP, the Far East Military Tribunal, the inquiries against the United States and every direct and indirect references to the role played by the Allied High Command in drafting Japan's new constitution or to censorship of publications, movies, newspapers and magazines was subject to massive censorship, <a href="/wiki/Purge" title="Purge">purges</a>, <a href="/wiki/Media_blackout" title="Media blackout">media blackout</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the four years (September 1945–November 1949) since the <a href="/wiki/Civil_Censorship_Detachment" title="Civil Censorship Detachment">CCD</a> was active, 200 million pieces of mail and 136 million telegrams were opened, and telephones were tapped 800,000 times. Since no criticism of the occupying forces for crimes such as the dropping of the atomic bomb, rape and robbery by US soldiers was allowed, a strict check was carried out. Those who got caught were put on a blacklist called the watchlist, and the persons and the organizations to which they belonged were investigated in detail, which made it easier to dismiss or arrest the "disturbing molecule".<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Malaysia">Malaysia</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Malaysia" title="Censorship in Malaysia">Censorship in Malaysia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Film_censorship_in_Malaysia" title="Film censorship in Malaysia">Film censorship in Malaysia</a></div> <p>Under subsection 48(3) and (4) of the <a href="/wiki/Penang" title="Penang">Penang</a> Islamic Religious Administration Enactment 2004, non-Muslims in <a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a> are penalized for using the following words, or to write or publish them, in any form, version or translation in any language or for use in any publicity material in any medium: <i>"Allah", "Firman Allah", "Ulama", "Hadith", "Ibadah", "Kaabah", "Qadhi<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>", "Illahi", "Wahyu", "Mubaligh", "Syariah", "Qiblat", "Haji", "Mufti", "Rasul", "Iman", "Dakwah", "Wali", "Fatwa", "Imam", "Nabi", "Sheikh", "Khutbah", "Tabligh", "Akhirat", "Azan", "Al Quran", "As Sunnah", "Auliya<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>", "Karamah", "False Moon God", "Syahadah", "Baitullah", "Musolla", "Zakat Fitrah", "Hajjah", "Taqwa" and "Soleh".</i><sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="North_Korea">North Korea</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_North_Korea" title="Censorship in North Korea">Censorship in North Korea</a> and <a href="/wiki/Radio_jamming_in_Korea" title="Radio jamming in Korea">Radio jamming in Korea</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Russia">Russia</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_the_Russian_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="Censorship in the Russian Federation">Censorship in the Russian Federation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Russia" title="Internet censorship in Russia">Internet censorship in Russia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russian_fake_news_laws" title="Russian fake news laws">Russian fake news laws</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Russian_2022_war_censorship_laws" title="Russian 2022 war censorship laws">Russian 2022 war censorship laws</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Last_Address_Sign_-_Moscow,_Kostyansky_Lane,_4_(2021-02-14)_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Last_Address_Sign_-_Moscow%2C_Kostyansky_Lane%2C_4_%282021-02-14%29_01.jpg/220px-Last_Address_Sign_-_Moscow%2C_Kostyansky_Lane%2C_4_%282021-02-14%29_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Last_Address_Sign_-_Moscow%2C_Kostyansky_Lane%2C_4_%282021-02-14%29_01.jpg/330px-Last_Address_Sign_-_Moscow%2C_Kostyansky_Lane%2C_4_%282021-02-14%29_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Last_Address_Sign_-_Moscow%2C_Kostyansky_Lane%2C_4_%282021-02-14%29_01.jpg/440px-Last_Address_Sign_-_Moscow%2C_Kostyansky_Lane%2C_4_%282021-02-14%29_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Russian opposition politician <a href="/wiki/Ilya_Yashin" title="Ilya Yashin">Ilya Yashin</a> was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison for discussing the <a href="/wiki/Bucha_massacre" title="Bucha massacre">Bucha massacre</a> in Ukraine on a <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a> stream.</figcaption></figure> <p>On 4 March 2022, Russian President <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> signed into law a bill introducing <a href="/wiki/Russian_2022_war_censorship_laws" title="Russian 2022 war censorship laws">prison sentences of up to 15 years</a> for those who publish "knowingly false information" about the Russian military and its operations, leading to some media outlets in Russia to stop reporting on Ukraine or shutting their media outlet.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Russia" title="Constitution of Russia">1993 Russian Constitution</a> has an article expressly prohibiting <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_the_Russian_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="Censorship in the Russian Federation">censorship</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the Russian censorship apparatus <i><a href="/wiki/Roskomnadzor" title="Roskomnadzor">Roskomnadzor</a></i> ordered the country's media to only use information from Russian state sources or face fines and blocks.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of December 2022, more than 4,000 people were prosecuted under "fake news" laws in connection with the <a href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Novaya_Gazeta" title="Novaya Gazeta">Novaya Gazeta</a></i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'s</span> editor-in-chief <a href="/wiki/Dmitry_Muratov" title="Dmitry Muratov">Dmitry Muratov</a> was awarded the <a href="/wiki/2021_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="2021 Nobel Peace Prize">2021 Nobel Peace Prize</a> for his "efforts to safeguard freedom of expression". In March 2022, <i>Novaya Gazeta</i> suspended its print activities after receiving a second warning from <i>Roskomnadzor</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Serbia">Serbia</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Serbia" title="Censorship in Serbia">Censorship in Serbia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Serbia" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet censorship in Serbia">Internet censorship in Serbia</a></div> <p>According to Christian Mihr, executive director of <a href="/wiki/Reporters_Without_Borders" title="Reporters Without Borders">Reporters Without Borders</a>, "censorship in Serbia is neither direct nor transparent, but is easy to prove."<sup id="cite_ref-b92.net_112-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b92.net-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Mihr there are numerous examples of censorship and self-censorship in Serbia <sup id="cite_ref-b92.net_112-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b92.net-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Mihr, Serbian prime minister <a href="/wiki/Aleksandar_Vu%C4%8Di%C4%87" title="Aleksandar Vučić">Aleksandar Vučić</a> has proved "very sensitive to criticism, even on critical questions," as was the case with Natalija Miletic, a correspondent for <a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Welle" title="Deutsche Welle">Deutsche Welle Radio</a>, who questioned him in Berlin about the media situation in Serbia and about allegations that some ministers in the Serbian government had plagiarized their diplomas, and who later received threats and offensive articles on the Serbian press.<sup id="cite_ref-b92.net_112-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b92.net-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Multiple news outlets have accused Vučić of anti-democratic strongman tendencies.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In July 2014, journalists associations were concerned about the freedom of the media in Serbia, in which Vučić came under criticism.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 2015 five members of United States Congress (Edie Bernice Johnson, Carlos Curbelo, Scott Perry, Adam Kinzinger, and <a href="/wiki/Zoe_Lofgren" title="Zoe Lofgren">Zoe Lofgren</a>) have informed Vice President of the United States <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Biden" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Biden">Joseph Biden</a> that Aleksandar's brother, Andrej Vučić, is leading a group responsible for deteriorating media freedom in <a href="/wiki/Serbia" title="Serbia">Serbia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Singapore">Singapore</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Singapore" title="Censorship in Singapore">Censorship in Singapore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Singapore" title="Internet censorship in Singapore">Internet censorship in Singapore</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Media_censorship_in_Singapore" title="Media censorship in Singapore">Media censorship in Singapore</a></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Republic of Singapore</a>, Section 33 of the Films Act originally banned the making, distribution and exhibition of "party political films", at the pain of a fine not exceeding $100,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Act further defines a "party political film" as any film or video </p> <dl><dd>(a) which is an advertisement made by or on behalf of any political party in Singapore or any body whose objects relate wholly or mainly to politics in Singapore, or any branch of such party or body; or</dd> <dd>(b) which is made by any person and directed towards any political end in Singapore</dd></dl> <p>In 2001, the short documentary called <i>A Vision of Persistence</i> on opposition politician <a href="/wiki/J._B._Jeyaretnam" title="J. B. Jeyaretnam">J. B. Jeyaretnam</a> was also banned for being a "party political film". The makers of the documentary, all lecturers at the Ngee Ann Polytechnic, later submitted written apologies and withdrew the documentary from being screened at the 2001 <a href="/wiki/Singapore_International_Film_Festival" title="Singapore International Film Festival">Singapore International Film Festival</a> in April, having been told they could be charged in court.<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another short documentary called <i>Singapore Rebel</i> by <a href="/wiki/Martyn_See" title="Martyn See">Martyn See</a>, which documented <a href="/wiki/Singapore_Democratic_Party" title="Singapore Democratic Party">Singapore Democratic Party</a> leader Dr <a href="/wiki/Chee_Soon_Juan" title="Chee Soon Juan">Chee Soon Juan</a>'s acts of civil disobedience, was banned from the 2005 <a href="/wiki/Singapore_International_Film_Festival" title="Singapore International Film Festival">Singapore International Film Festival</a> on the same grounds and See is being investigated for possible violations of the Films Act.<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This law, however, is often disregarded when such political films are made supporting the ruling <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Action_Party" title="People's Action Party">People's Action Party</a> (PAP). <a href="/wiki/Channel_NewsAsia" class="mw-redirect" title="Channel NewsAsia">Channel NewsAsia</a>'s five-part documentary series on Singapore's PAP ministers in 2005, for example, was not considered a party political film.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Exceptions are also made when political films are made concerning political parties of other nations. Films such as <a href="/wiki/Michael_Moore" title="Michael Moore">Michael Moore</a>'s 2004 documentary <i><a href="/wiki/Fahrenheit_911" class="mw-redirect" title="Fahrenheit 911">Fahrenheit 911</a></i> are thus allowed to screen regardless of the law.<sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since March 2009, the Films Act has been amended to allow party political films as long as they were deemed factual and objective by a consultative committee. Some months later, this committee lifted the ban on Singapore Rebel.<sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Soviet_Union">Soviet Union</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Censorship in the Soviet Union">Censorship in the Soviet Union</a> and <a href="/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Censorship of images in the Soviet Union">Censorship of images in the Soviet Union</a></div> <p>Independent journalism did not exist in the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> until <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev">Mikhail Gorbachev</a> became its leader. Gorbachev adopted <a href="/wiki/Glasnost" title="Glasnost">glasnost</a> (openness), political reform aimed at reducing censorship; before glasnost all reporting was directed by the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Communist Party</a> or related organizations. <a href="/wiki/Pravda" title="Pravda">Pravda</a>, the predominant newspaper in the Soviet Union, had a monopoly. Foreign newspapers were available only if they were published by <a href="/wiki/Communist_parties" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist parties">communist parties</a> sympathetic to the Soviet Union. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Spain">Spain</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Spain" title="Censorship in Spain">Censorship in Spain</a> and <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet censorship in Spain">Internet censorship in Spain</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Turkey">Turkey</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Turkey" title="Censorship in Turkey">Censorship in Turkey</a>, <a href="/wiki/2017_block_of_Wikipedia_in_Turkey" class="mw-redirect" title="2017 block of Wikipedia in Turkey">2017 block of Wikipedia in Turkey</a>, and <a href="/wiki/2016%E2%80%93present_purges_in_Turkey" class="mw-redirect" title="2016–present purges in Turkey">2016–present purges in Turkey</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Turkish_journalists_protesting_imprisonment_of_their_colleagues_in_2016.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Turkish_journalists_protesting_imprisonment_of_their_colleagues_in_2016.jpg/220px-Turkish_journalists_protesting_imprisonment_of_their_colleagues_in_2016.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Turkish_journalists_protesting_imprisonment_of_their_colleagues_in_2016.jpg/330px-Turkish_journalists_protesting_imprisonment_of_their_colleagues_in_2016.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Turkish_journalists_protesting_imprisonment_of_their_colleagues_in_2016.jpg/440px-Turkish_journalists_protesting_imprisonment_of_their_colleagues_in_2016.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4128" data-file-height="2322" /></a><figcaption>Turkish journalists protesting <a href="/wiki/Media_freedom_in_Turkey" class="mw-redirect" title="Media freedom in Turkey">imprisonment of their colleagues</a> on <a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_Day" title="Human Rights Day">Human Rights Day</a>, 10 December 2016</figcaption></figure> <p>Online access to all language versions of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> was blocked in <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> on 29 April 2017 by <a href="/wiki/Recep_Tayyip_Erdo%C4%9Fan" title="Recep Tayyip Erdoğan">Erdoğan</a>'s government.<sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Article_299_(Turkish_Penal_Code)" title="Article 299 (Turkish Penal Code)">Article 299</a> of the Turkish Penal Code deems it illegal to "Insult the <a href="/wiki/President_of_Turkey" title="President of Turkey">President of Turkey</a>"<i>.</i> A person who is sentenced for a violation of this article can be sentenced to a prison term between one and four years and if the violation was made in public the verdict can be elevated by a sixth.<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Prosecutions often target critics of the government, independent journalists, and political cartoonists.<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Between 2014 and 2019, 128,872 investigations were launched for this offense and prosecutors opened 27,717 criminal cases.<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_Kingdom">United Kingdom</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Censorship in the United Kingdom">Censorship in the United Kingdom</a>, <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Internet censorship in the United Kingdom">Internet censorship in the United Kingdom</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Film_censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Film censorship in the United Kingdom">Film censorship in the United Kingdom</a></div> <p>From December 1956 until 1974 the <a href="/wiki/Irish_republicanism" title="Irish republicanism">Irish republican</a> political party <a href="/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in" title="Sinn Féin">Sinn Féin</a> was banned from participating in elections by the Northern Ireland Government.<sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1988 until 1994 the British government prevented the UK media from broadcasting the voices (but not words) of Sinn Féin and ten Irish republican and <a href="/wiki/Ulster_loyalism" title="Ulster loyalism">Ulster loyalist</a> groups.<sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_States">United States</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_States" title="Censorship in the United States">Censorship in the United States</a>, <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_United_States" title="Internet censorship in the United States">Internet censorship in the United States</a>, <a href="/wiki/Film_censorship_in_the_United_States" title="Film censorship in the United States">Film censorship in the United States</a>, <a href="/wiki/Book_censorship_in_the_United_States" title="Book censorship in the United States">Book censorship in the United States</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Censorship_of_school_curricula_in_the_United_States" title="Censorship of school curricula in the United States">Censorship of school curricula in the United States</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_of_student_media_in_the_United_States" title="Censorship of student media in the United States">Censorship of student media in the United States</a></div> <p>In the United States, most forms of censorship are self-imposed rather than enforced by the government. The government does not routinely censor material, although state and local governments often restrict what is provided in libraries and public schools.<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, distribution, receipt, and transmission (but not <a href="/wiki/United_States_obscenity_law#Possession_of_obscene_material" title="United States obscenity law">mere private possession</a>) of <a href="/wiki/United_States_obscenity_law" title="United States obscenity law">obscene material</a> may be prohibited by law. Furthermore, under <a href="/wiki/FCC_v._Pacifica_Foundation" title="FCC v. Pacifica Foundation">FCC v. Pacifica Foundation</a>, the FCC has the power to prohibit the transmission of indecent material over broadcast. Additionally, critics of <a href="/wiki/Campaign_finance_reform_in_the_United_States" title="Campaign finance reform in the United States">campaign finance reform in the United States</a> say this reform imposes widespread restrictions on political speech.<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Uruguay">Uruguay</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Uruguay" class="mw-redirect" title="Censorship in Uruguay">Censorship in Uruguay</a> and <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Uruguay" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet censorship in Uruguay">Internet censorship in Uruguay</a></div> <p>In 1973, a military coup took power in Uruguay, and the State practiced censorship. For example, writer <a href="/wiki/Eduardo_Galeano" title="Eduardo Galeano">Eduardo Galeano</a> was imprisoned and later was forced to flee. His book <a href="/wiki/Open_Veins_of_Latin_America" title="Open Veins of Latin America">Open Veins of Latin America</a> was banned by the right-wing military government, not only in Uruguay, but also in Chile and Argentina.<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output 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"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED308864.pdf">A Critical Analysis of the Library-Related Literature Concerning Censorship in Public Libraries and Public School Libraries in the United States During the 1980s</a>." Project for degree of Education Specialist, <a href="/wiki/University_of_South_Florida" title="University of South Florida">University of South Florida</a>, December 1987.</li> <li>Biltereyst, Daniel, ed. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=xe4pAAAAQBAJ"><i>Silencing Cinema</i></a>. Palgrave/Macmillan, 2013.* Birmingham, Kevin, <i>The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses</i>, London (Head of Zeus Ltd), 2014, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1594203367" title="Special:BookSources/978-1594203367">978-1594203367</a></li> <li>Burress, Lee. <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/battleofbookslit0000burr">Battle of the Books</a></i>. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1989.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judith_Butler" title="Judith Butler">Butler, Judith</a>, "Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative"(1997).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darnton,_Robert" class="mw-redirect" title="Darnton, Robert">Darnton, Robert</a>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/censorsatworkhow0000darn"><i>Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature</i></a></span>. New York: W. W. Norton. 2014. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0393242294" title="Special:BookSources/978-0393242294"><bdi>978-0393242294</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Censors+at+Work%3A+How+States+Shaped+Literature&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=W.+W.+Norton&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=978-0393242294&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fcensorsatworkhow0000darn&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACensorship" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Demm, Eberhard. <i>Censorship and Propaganda in World War I: A Comprehensive History</i> (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56607">online review</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michel_Foucault" title="Michel Foucault">Foucault, Michel</a>, edited by Lawrence D. Kritzman. <i>Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings 1977–1984</i> (New York/London: 1988, Routledge, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0415900824" title="Special:BookSources/0415900824">0415900824</a>) (The text <i>Sexual Morality and the Law</i> is Chapter 16 of the book).</li> <li>Gilbert, Nora. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=TuZe1EIcQ5AC"><i>Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels, Hays Code Films, and the Benefits of Censorship</i></a>. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013.</li> <li>Hoffman, Frank. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/intellectualfree00hoff"><i>Intellectual Freedom and Censorship</i></a>. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1989.</li> <li>Mathiesen, Kay <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ssrn.com/abstract=1264451">Censorship and Access to Information</a> Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics</i>, Kenneth E. Himma, Herman T. Tavani, eds., John Wiley and Sons, New York, 2008</li> <li>National Coalition against Censorship (NCAC). "Books on Trial: A Survey of Recent Cases." January 1985.</li> <li>Parker, Alison M. (1997). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=p4LihwMas0cC"><i>Purifying America: Women, Cultural Reform, and Pro-Censorship Activism, 1873–1933</i></a>, University of Illinois Press.</li> <li>Ringmar, Erik <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/download/ABloggersManifestoFreeSpeechAndCensorshipInTheAgeOfTheInternet/ErikRingmarABloggersManifesto.pdf"><i>A Blogger's Manifesto: Free Speech and Censorship in the Age of the Internet</i></a> (London: Anthem Press, 2007)</li> <li>Terry, John David II. "Censorship: Post Pico." In <i>School Law Update, 1986</i>, edited by Thomas N. Jones and Darel P. Semler.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSandefur2008" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Sandefur, Timothy (2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sk.sagepub.com/reference/libertarianism/n37.xml">"Censorship"</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Hamowy" title="Ronald Hamowy">Hamowy, Ronald</a> (ed.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC"><i>The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism</i></a>. Thousand Oaks, CA: <a href="/wiki/SAGE_Publishing" class="mw-redirect" title="SAGE Publishing">Sage</a>; <a href="/wiki/Cato_Institute" title="Cato Institute">Cato Institute</a>. pp. 56–57. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1412965804" title="Special:BookSources/978-1412965804"><bdi>978-1412965804</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Censorship&rft.btitle=The+Encyclopedia+of+Libertarianism&rft.place=Thousand+Oaks%2C+CA&rft.pages=56-57&rft.pub=Sage%3B+Cato+Institute&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-1412965804&rft.aulast=Sandefur&rft.aufirst=Timothy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fsk.sagepub.com%2Freference%2Flibertarianism%2Fn37.xml&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACensorship" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Silber, Radomír. <i>Partisan Media and Modern Censorship: Media Influence On Czech Political Partisanship and the Media's Creation of Limits to Public Opposition and Control of Exercising Power in the Czech Republic in the 1990s</i>. First edition. Brno: Tribun EU, 2017. 86 stran. Librix.eu. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-8026311744" title="Special:BookSources/978-8026311744">978-8026311744</a>.</li> <li>Silber, Radomír. (2018) On Modern Censorship in Public Service Broadcasting. <i>Cultural and Religious Studies, Volume 3</i>, 2018, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:2328-2177">2328-2177</a>.</li> <li>Wittern-Keller, Laura. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=dvzHIRpfY1UC"><i>Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to State Film Censorship, 1915–1981</i></a>. University Press of Kentucky 2008</li> <li>Gosztonyi, Gergely. (2023) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-46529-1"><i>Censorship from Plato to Social Media</i></a> Springer, Cham. 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href="/wiki/Communications_in_Burundi#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Communications in Burundi">Burundi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Cameroon#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Cameroon">Cameroon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_the_Central_African_Republic#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in the Central African Republic">Central African Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Chad#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Chad">Chad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo#Internet_freedom" title="Human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo">Congo DR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_the_Republic_of_the_Congo#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in the Republic of the Congo">Congo RO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Egypt" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet censorship in Egypt">Egypt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_in_Eritrea#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet in Eritrea">Eritrea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_in_Ethiopia#Censorship" title="Internet in Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_the_Gambia#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in the Gambia">Gambia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Ghana#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Ghana">Ghana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Guinea#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Guinea">Guinea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Guinea-Bissau#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Guinea-Bissau">Guinea-Bissau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Ivory_Coast#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Ivory Coast">Ivory Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Kenya#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Kenya">Kenya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Lesotho#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Lesotho">Lesotho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communications_in_Liberia#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" class="mw-redirect" title="Communications in Liberia">Liberia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Libya#Internet" class="mw-redirect" title="Telecommunications in Libya">Libya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Madagascar#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" class="mw-redirect" title="Telecommunications in Madagascar">Madagascar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Malawi" title="Internet censorship in Malawi">Malawi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Mauritania#Internet_freedom" title="Human rights in Mauritania">Mauritania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Morocco" title="Internet censorship in Morocco">Morocco</a> (<span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Western_Sahara#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Western Sahara">Western Sahara</a></span>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Mozambique#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Mozambique">Mozambique</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Namibia#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Namibia">Namibia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Niger#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Niger">Niger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Nigeria#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Nigeria">Nigeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Rwanda#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Rwanda">Rwanda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Senegal#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Senegal">Senegal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Sierra_Leone#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Sierra Leone">Sierra Leone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communications_in_Somalia#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Communications in Somalia">Somalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_South_Africa" title="Internet censorship in South Africa">South Africa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Sudan#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Sudan">Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Swaziland#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" class="mw-redirect" title="Telecommunications in Swaziland">Swaziland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Tanzania#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Tanzania">Tanzania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Togo#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Togo">Togo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Tunisia" title="Internet censorship in Tunisia">Tunisia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Zambia#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Zambia">Zambia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_in_Zimbabwe#Legal_and_regulatory_framework" title="Internet in Zimbabwe">Zimbabwe</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Americas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communications_in_Argentina#Censorship" title="Communications in Argentina">Argentina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_the_Bahamas#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in the Bahamas">Bahamas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Barbados#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Barbados">Barbados</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Belize#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Belize">Belize</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Bolivia#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Bolivia">Bolivia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Brazil" title="Censorship in Brazil">Brazil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet censorship in Canada">Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Chile#Internet_freedom" title="Human rights in Chile">Chile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_in_Colombia#Censorship" title="Internet in Colombia">Colombia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Costa_Rica#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Costa Rica">Costa Rica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Cuba" title="Internet censorship in Cuba">Cuba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_the_Dominican_Republic#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in the Dominican Republic">Dominican Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Ecuador#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Ecuador">Ecuador</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_El_Salvador#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in El Salvador">El Salvador</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_in_Greenland#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet in Greenland">Greenland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Guatemala#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in 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title="Internet censorship in China">China</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_in_East_Timor#Censorship" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet in East Timor">East Timor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Hong_Kong" title="Internet censorship in Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India" title="Internet censorship in India">India</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Indonesia" title="Internet censorship in Indonesia">Indonesia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Iran" title="Internet censorship in Iran">Iran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Iraq#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Iraq">Iraq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_in_Israel#Internet_censorship" title="Internet in Israel">Israel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_in_Japan#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Internet in Japan">Japan</a></li> <li><a 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