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Censorship is defined as the removal and withholding of information from the public by a controlling group or body. ...
Censorship in the Peoples Republic of China refers to the government of the Peoples Republic of Chinas policy of controlling the publishing, dissemination, and viewing of certain information. ...
As with many Soviet-allied countries prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the government of the former German Democratic Republic (German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik) applied wide censorship during its existence from 1949 to 1990. ...
Censorship in South Asia can apply to books, movies the Internet and other media. ...
There is basically no censorship in Taiwan since 1977 when all the censorship had been eliminated. ...
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Bold text Advertising regulation refers to the laws and rules defining the ways in which products can be advertised in a particular region. ...
Editing of anime in American distribution describes the process of altering Anime to prepare it to be distributed in the United States and forms part of the process of Localization. ...
Many societies have banned certain books. ...
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A re-edited film is a film that has been edited from the original theatrical release. ...
Censorship of music, the practice of censoring music from the public, may take the form of partial or total censorship with the latter banning the music entirely. ...
Computer and video games have been the subject of frequent controversy and censorship, due to the depiction of graphic violence, sexual themes, racism, consumption of illegal drugs, consumption of alcohol or tobacco, propaganda, extremism or profanity in some games. ...
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Book burning is the practice of ceremoniously destroying by fire one or more copies of a book or other written material. ...
A bleep censor is used to filter out inappropriate audio content during a live United States the Federal Communications Commission has the constitutional right to regulate indecent broadcasts. ...
DansGuardian blocking whitehouse. ...
Corporate censorship is a term used to denote either censorship through legal challenges, through refusal to sell a product, or refusal to advertise or allow air time. ...
Censorship in Italy under Fascism Censorship in Italy was not created with Fascism, nor it ended with it, but it had a relevantly heavy importance in the life of Italians under the Regime. ...
Pixelization is a video- and image-editing technique where an image, or part of it, is blurred by displaying part or all of it at a lower resolution. ...
During times of war post from the front is often opened and offending parts blanked or cut out. ...
Prior restraint is a legal term referring to a governments actions that prevent materials from being published. ...
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Self-censorship is the act of censoring and/or classifying ones own book(s), film(s), or other kind of art to avoid offending others without an authority pressuring them to do so. ...
There is also a WFMU radio program called Seven Second Delay. ...
| - This article is for the meaning of censorship. For other uses, see Whitewash (disambiguation)
Whitewash is a form of censorship via omission in which errors or misdemeanors are deliberately concealed or downplayed. In politics, whitewash is sometimes used to describe a cover-up or a deliberate downplaying of a problem. Look up whitewash in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Censorship is defined as the removal and withholding of information from the public by a controlling group or body. ...
The Politics series Politics Portal This box: Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. ...
When a scandal breaks, the discovery of an attempt to cover up the evidence of wrongdoing is often regarded as even more scandalous than the original deeds. ...
Etymology Its first reference dates back to 1762 in a Boston Evening Post article.[citation needed] In 1800, the word was first used in a political context, when a Philadelphia Aurora editorial said that "if you do not whitewash President Adams speedily, the Democrats, like swarms of flies, will bespatter him all over, and make you both as speckled as a dirty wall, and as black as the devil."[citation needed] 1762 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
// ON MAY 5 1853 MR.FADER HAD SEX WITH A MAN NAME MR WIEN THEN THEY HAD SON NAMEDMRS COTURE AND MR MANOOGIAN WENT INTO MRS HASKELLS OFFICE NAKED AND DANCED AROUND AND MASTERBATED ON HER CHEST AND SHE LICKED IT OFF THEN THEY HAD ORAL SEEX WITH NAPLOEAN OF...
John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) served as Americas first Vice President (1789–1797) and as its second President (1797–1801). ...
The Democratic-Republican party was a United States political party, which evolved early in the history of the United States. ...
Satan frozen at the center of Cocytus, the ninth circle of Hell in Dantes Inferno. ...
Modern usage Many dictatorships and authoritarian states, as well as democratic countries, have used the method of whitewash in order to glorify the results. Forms of government Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box: A dictatorship is an autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by a dictator. ...
The term authoritarian is used to describe an organization or a state which enforces strong and sometimes oppressive measures against the population, generally without attempts at gaining the consent of the population. ...
During the Soviet-era, Stalin adjusted the photographs with Lenin, in order to position himself closer as to give an impression of the close relationship between the two. Soviet redirects here. ...
Iosif (usually anglicized as Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილ...
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ( Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ле́нин listen?), original surname Ulyanov (Улья́нов) ( April 22 (April 10 ( O.S.)), 1870 – January 21, 1924), was a...
North Korean radio broadcasts claim to have an abundance in food supplies, yet the government receives food aid from foreign states.[1] North Korea, officially the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK; Korean: Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk; Hangul: 조선민주주의인민공화국; Hanja: 朝鮮民主主義人民共和國), is a country in eastern Asia...
Japan is accused of whitewashing its history of warfare and imperialism by omitting or minimizing subjects such as the Nanking Massacre in textbooks.[2] For the 2007 documentary film about the Nanking Massacre, see Nanking (film). ...
Fictional usage Novels by George Orwell have dealt with the subject of whitewash as well. In Animal Farm, the pig Napoleon tries to whitewash history by deleting a few characters from the minds of the other animals. This was perceived as a direct reference to the USSR under Stalin. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903[1][2] – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. ...
Animal Farm is a novel by George Orwell, and is regarded in the literary field as one of the most famous satirical allegories of Soviet totalitarianism. ...
Whitewash is also the name of a 2004 novel by Chuck Cosson, published under the pseudonym "Erik Blair", which is an altered spelling of Orwell's birth name. It involves a politically inconvenient truth: the President's running mate in a re-election campaign, a popular African-American TV talk show hostess, has kept secret her real identity (as a foreign national and former CIA asset). When this is discovered by the Attorney General, he must then wrestle with the tension between honesty and loyalty, while the campaign tries to whitewash over the importance of his investigation.
References For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...
is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...
is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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