press censorship
Media content control
Press censorship is the suppression or control of what newspapers, broadcasters, and other media outlets can publish.
Governments may censor the press to silence political opposition, protect national security, or maintain social order.
It ranges from outright bans on certain topics to subtler forms like requiring approval before publication or threatening journalists with prosecution.
The regime's press censorship kept citizens ignorant of the uprising.
- blackoutComplete power loss
- chilling effectDiscouragement through intimidation
- state-controlled mediaNews run by government
- samizdatClandestine dissident publishing
- banned booksLiterature officially prohibited
prior restraint · official secrets · national security · kill the story · whistleblowing · gag order · propaganda · sedition laws · libel laws · corporate interests · redaction · spiked · Indira Gandhi · obscenity laws · publication bans · banned · suppression · government crackdown
- PortugalLisbon, Porto, Algarve, Oporto, Madeira
- authoritarianismautocracy, absolutism, despotism, dictatorship, totalitarianism
- censorshipbanned books, censored, banned, book banning, book bans
- media regulationcontent moderation, book banning, book bans, banned books, publication ban
- political oppressionvoter suppression, election fraud, rigged elections, ballot stuffing, vote rigging
- rights abusestorture, ethnic cleansing, arbitrary detention, political prisoners, disappearances
press censorshippress freedom
Right to publish uncensored
freedom of the press · free press · media freedom · freedom of information · citizen journalism
press censorshipeditorial independence
Freedom from publisher interference
self-regulation · journalistic freedom · editorial freedom · independent media · investigative journalism
press censorshipfree speech
Protected verbal liberty
freedom of expression · transparency · watchdog journalism · government accountability · free expression