wartime censorship
Battle-era information control
Wartime censorship is government control of information during armed conflict—suppressing news, images, or communications that might aid the enemy, damage morale, or reveal military operations.
It ranges from voluntary press guidelines to outright prohibition: Letters home were subject to wartime censorship.
The practice raises tensions between national security and free speech that persist long after hostilities end.
- blackoutComplete power loss
- news blackoutSuppression of information release
- national securitySafeguarding a country's interests
- classified informationSensitive, access-restricted material
- military intelligenceWartime information gathering
redaction · radio broadcasts · surveillance · propaganda · book burning · newspapers · troop movements · loose lips · loose lips sink ships · television news · war correspondent · whistleblower protections · encryption · filtering · interception · enemy aliens · blacklisting · press restrictions
- censorshipbanned books, censored, banned, book banning, book bans
- war lawsEspionage Act, emergency powers, martial law, war powers, draft law
- war mediawar films, war footage, war correspondents, war correspondent, war reporting
wartime censorshipfreedom of the press
Constitutional journalism protection
press freedom · free press · journalistic freedom · free speech · media freedom
wartime censorshipwhistleblowing
Exposing hidden wrongdoing internally
full disclosure · transparency · open government · government transparency · public accountability