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Traditionally, the First Amendment was regarded as applying only to the Federal government, leaving the states and local communities free to censor or not. As the applicability of states' rights in lawmaking vis-a-vis citizens' national rights began to wane in the wake of the Civil War , censorship by any level of government eventually came ...
President Andrew Jackson was censured by the Senate in 1834. The censure was expunged in 1837. There have been four cases in U.S. history where the House of Representatives or the Senate adopted a resolution that, in its original form, would censure the president.
The SAVE Act makes it illegal to knowingly advertise content related to sex trafficking, including online advertising. The law established federal criminal liability for third-party content. One concern was that this would lead companies to over-censor, or to limit the practice of monitoring content altogether to avoid "knowledge" of illegal ...
Catholic thurible or chain censer, designed for swinging Censer from Tibet, late 19th century, silver. A censer, incense burner, perfume burner or pastille burner is a vessel made for burning incense or perfume in some solid form.
Censor of St Cuthbert's Society, employed by University of Durham to oversee Society members; Censor Librorum, an expert called on to advise the bishop of a diocese whether or not to grant an imprimatur; Chief Censor of New Zealand, the head of the government's Office of Film and Literature Classification
The censor had removed a section regarding the strike alert; hence the workers in the printing house blanked out an official propaganda section. The right-hand page also includes a hand-written confirmation of that decision by the local Solidarity trade union .
The word censorship comes from the Latin word censor, the job of two Romans whose duty was to supervise public behaviour and morals, ...
Internet censorship is the legal control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet. Censorship is most often applied to specific internet domains (such as Wikipedia.org, for example) but exceptionally may extend to all Internet resources located outside the jurisdiction of the censoring state.