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Prior restraint - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3186 words) |
 | Prior restraint is a legal term referring to a government's actions that prevent materials from being published. |
| Prior restraint is often considered a particularly oppressive form of censorship in Anglo-American jurisprudence because it prevents the restricted material from being heard or distributed at all. |
| There is a long history of prior restraints on the theater, and in the United Kingdom plays still required a license until well into the twentieth century. |
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