Censorship
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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.]] | 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.]] | ||
| + | [[Image:Perversion for Profit.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A typical image from ''[[Perversion for Profit]]'': a photograph taken from a [[lesbian pornography]] magazine and [[censorship|censored]] with [[censor bar|colored rectangles]]]] | ||
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| '''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]]. | '''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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A typical image from Perversion for Profit: a photograph taken from a lesbian pornography magazine and censored with colored rectangles
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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.
Related terms
Banned - hidden - illegal - illicit - secret
By medium
References
- The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
- Ludwig Marcuse's Obscene: The history of an indignation (1962).
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