Censorship
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| - | + | [[Image:Index Librorum Prohibitorum.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The ''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum]]'' ("[[banned books|List of Prohibited Books]]") is a list of publications which the [[Catholic|Catholic Church]] [[censorship|censored]] for being a [[danger]] to itself and the faith of its members. The various [[edition]]s also contain the rules of the [[Church]] relating to the reading, selling and censorship of books. The aim of the list was to prevent the reading of [[morality|immoral]] books or works containing [[theology|theological]] errors and to prevent the [[corruption]] of the faithful.]] | |
| [[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]]]] | [[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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Illustration: Cover of the Nazi Germany 1937 Degenerate art exhibition.
Image:Perversion for Profit.jpg
A typical image from Perversion for Profit: a photograph taken from a lesbian pornography magazine and censored with colored rectangles
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- "The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalogue of banned books." --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg on the beneficial side effects of censorship.
- 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 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.
By medium
References
- The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France by Robert Darnton
- Obscene: The history of an indignation (1962) by Ludwig Marcuse.
See also
Freedoms:
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