media censorship
Restricting public information
Media censorship is the suppression or control of information in news, entertainment, or other public communications.
Governments censor media to suppress dissent or maintain power; private platforms censor to enforce community standards or legal requirements.
The term often carries negative connotations, implying illegitimate control over what people can see or say: Critics accused the network of media censorship for refusing to air the documentary.
- authoritarianismConcentrated, unchecked governmental power
- thought policeSuppressors of forbidden beliefs
- chilling effectDiscouragement through intimidation
- prior restraintPrepublication suppression of speech
- gag orderCourt-imposed speech restriction
propaganda · fake news · national security · dictatorship · redaction · Streisand effect · news blackout · blackout · banned books · surveillance systems · corporate interests · human rights violations · content moderation · autocracy · public safety · civil rights movements · political repression · filtered
- Philippine historypresidents, Spanish rule, vice president, revolutionaries, Imelda
- censorshipbanned books, censored, banned, book banning, book bans
- war mediawar films, war footage, war correspondents, war correspondent, war reporting
- media lawlibel, press laws, slander, defamation, free press
- journalismreporters, interview, editors, student editors, school paper
- Central AmericaNicaragua, Costa Rica, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras
media censorshippress freedom
Right to publish uncensored
freedom of the press · free expression · media freedom · free press · freedom of speech
media censorshipfree speech
Protected verbal liberty
freedom of speech · protected speech · expressive freedom · speech rights · civil liberties
media censorshiptransparency
State of being see-through
open access · public disclosure · net neutrality · whistleblowing · open government