state censorship
Official information control
State censorship is government suppression or control of information, expression, or media.
It ranges from outright bans on books, films, or websites to subtler mechanisms like licensing requirements, funding pressure, or vague laws that encourage self-censorship.
The regime's state censorship extended to social media platforms.
Governments typically justify it through appeals to national security, public morality, or social stability.
- sedition lawsRules criminalizing anti-government agitation
- firewallsSecurity barriers blocking intrusions
- Big BrotherTotalitarian surveillance authority
- thought policeSuppressors of forbidden beliefs
- doublethinkHolding contradictory beliefs simultaneously
silence · thoughtcrime · dissident · banned books · totalitarianism · Orwellian · authoritarianism · propaganda · Great Firewall · book burnings · memory hole · Pravda · political stability · blackout · Soviet Union · ideological conformity · newspaper · blocked
- censorshipbanned books, censored, banned, book banning, book bans
- East GermanyStasi, GDR, DDR, Berlin Wall, East Germany
- Soviet LiteratureSolzhenitsyn, Boris Pasternak, Pasternak, Babel, Grossman
- SovietologySoviet history, Stalinism, Leninism, collectivization, five-year plans
- Slavic LiteratureDostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Pushkin, Nabokov
- Socialist LiteratureCommunist Manifesto, Das Kapital, Marx, Engels, proletariat
state censorshipfree press
Journalism without censorship
press freedom · freedom of the press · freedom of information · net neutrality · freedom of expression
state censorshipprotected speech
journalistic freedom · editorial independence · watchdog journalism · free inquiry · academic freedom
state censorshipgovernment transparency
Public access to official proceedings
open government · public disclosure · sunshine laws · declassification · FOIA