Chilling effect
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| - | Cover of the [[Nazi Germany]] [[1937]] [[Degenerate art]] [[exhibition]]. This exhibition is also a perfect illustration of the beneficial side-effects of [[censorship]]. Beneficial in the sense that any attempt at banning works of art, books or other cultural artifacts results in an aide to discerning [[culturati]] to seek out this [[forbidden fruit]] with zeal. Such has been the case with [[Video Nasties]], the [[Index Librorum Prohibitorum]] (the Catholic Index) and the [[Degenerate Art]] expo depicted above.</small>]] | + | Cover of the [[Nazi Germany]] [[1937]] [[Degenerate art]] [[exhibition]].</small>]] |
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| - | :"The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalogue of [[banned books]]." --[[Georg Christoph Lichtenberg]], [[Aphorisms]] (G 37 in [[R. J. Hollingdale]]'s translation and numeration) | ||
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| - | :''[[banned]], [[hidden]], [[illegal]], [[illicit]], [[secret]]'' | ||
| - | '''Censorship''' is the removal or withholding of information from the [[public]] by a controlling group or body. Typically censorship is done by [[government]]s, religious groups, or the [[mass media]], although other forms of censorship exist. The term "censorship" often carries with it a sense of [[untoward]], [[inappropriate]] or [[repressive]] [[secrecy]]. | ||
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| - | Censorship is closely related to the concepts of [[freedom of speech]] and [[freedom of expression]]. When overused, it is often associated with [[human rights]] abuse, [[dictatorship]] and [[repression]]. | ||
| - | == By medium == | ||
| - | *[[Banned books]] | ||
| - | *[[Banned films]] | ||
| - | *[[Censorship of music]] | ||
| - | **[[Entartete Musik]] | ||
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| - | ==References== | ||
| - | *''[[The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France]]'' by [[Robert Darnton]] | ||
| - | *''[[Obscene: The history of an indignation]]'' (1962) by [[Ludwig Marcuse]]. | ||
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| - | ==See also== | ||
| - | *[[Book burning]] | ||
| - | *[[Book banning]] | ||
| - | *[[Chilling effect (term)|Chilling Effect]] | ||
| - | *[[Newspeak]] | ||
| - | *[[Self-censorship]] | ||
| - | *[[Taboo]] | ||
| - | *[[Video game censorship]] | ||
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| - | '''Freedoms:''' | ||
| - | *[[Freedom of the press]] | ||
| - | *[[Freedom of speech]] | ||
| - | *[[Freedom of thought]] | ||
| - | *[[Scientific freedom]] | ||
| - | *[[Academic freedom]] | ||
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Illustration: Cover of the Nazi Germany 1937 Degenerate art exhibition.
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