Chilling effect
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Illustration: 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.
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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)
Censorship is the removal or withholding of information from the public by a controlling group or body. Typically censorship is done by governments, 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.
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.
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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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Freedoms:
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