information control
Regulating public awareness
Information control is the management of what people know or can access.
Governments practice information control through censorship, propaganda, or classification of documents.
Cults maintain information control by limiting members' exposure to outside sources.
The term often carries sinister connotations—controlling information means controlling people: The regime's information control kept citizens ignorant of the protests.
- firewallsSecurity barriers blocking intrusions
- censorshipOfficial content restriction
- big brotherOlder male sibling
- thought policeSuppressors of forbidden beliefs
- propagandaBiased information for influence
intellectual property · data privacy · data breach · kill switch · encryption · fact checking · gag orders · whistleblower protections · bias · dark patterns · algorithms · databases · filters · classified documents · need to know · compliance · content moderation · social engineering
- censorshipbanned books, censored, banned, book banning, book bans
- cultsbrainwashing, Scientology, Jonestown, Jim Jones, Charles Manson
- manipulationgaslighting, guilt tripping, blame-shifting, brainwashing, guilt trip
- cult awarenesscults, deprogramming, brainwashing, survivor support, indoctrination
- media biasmedia bias, bias, editorial bias, slant, partisan
- Orwelliannewspeak, doublethink, Big Brother, thoughtcrime, Ministry of Truth
information controltransparency
State of being see-through
open access · freedom of information · open communication · whistleblowing · disclosure
information controldecentralization
Distributing power from center
citizen journalism · grassroots media · WikiLeaks · open society · samizdat
information controlopen data
Freely shareable digital information
knowledge sharing · open source · full disclosure · open books · creative commons
information, control, inform, informed, informing, informer, informant, informative, misinform