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Over the course of history, many nations and political organisations have utilised political censorship and propaganda in order to manipulate the public. The Ancien régime, for example, is well known for having implemented censorship. In 1851, Napoleon III declared himself emperor.
Censorship has been criticized throughout history for being unfair and hindering progress. [citation needed] In a 1997 essay on Internet censorship, social commentator Michael Landier explains that censorship is counterproductive as it prevents the censored topic from being discussed. Landier expands his argument by claiming that those who ...
Censorship came to British America with the Mayflower "when the governor of Plymouth, Massachusetts, William Bradford learned [in 1629] [4] that Thomas Morton of Merrymount, in addition to his other misdeed, had 'composed sundry rhymes and verses, some tending to lasciviousness' the only solution was to send a military expedition to break up Morton's high-living."
Editor's note: This essay was first published on the author's blog: Res ipsa loquitur – The thing itself speaks. 2025 has just begun and for the first time in many years, free-speech advocates ...
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Some legal scholars (such as Tim Wu of Columbia University) have argued that the traditional issues of free speech—that "the main threat to free speech" is the censorship of "suppressive states", and that "ill-informed or malevolent speech" can and should be overcome by "more and better speech" rather than censorship—assumes scarcity of ...
Politics and the English Language – 1946 essay by George Orwell; Red-baiting – Discrediting opponent's argument by accusing them of being a radical leftist; Reverse discrimination – Discrimination against members of a dominant or majority group; Self-censorship – Act of censoring or classifying one's own discourse
The committee was a non-government organization mostly composed of educators, and filmmakers did not comply with the requirements, which made its attempt at censorship ineffective. [7]: 7–8 In 1926, the Hangzhou Film Censorship Board became the first in China to cooperate work with the police to implement censorship.