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October 06, 2009

censor

Censor

censor (noun) - when an authority examines media content and cuts out parts before it is released to the public (reasons given for cutting: immoral, secret, inappropriate for children, pornographic, breaks law...)

censor
(adjective, verb)

the censor (noun) - the person who cuts parts out of the media content 

censorship (noun) - the activity of cutting parts out of media content

governments are figuring out how to censor information on the Net
 
a firewall to censor
censor political discussion
circumvent censorship

Beijing's efforts to build a Great Firewall to censor political discussion has been circumvented before

You can't censor us; this is free speech

In Iran, she was forced to self censor
informal censorship

parental censorship
Patrick's mother discussed a parent's role as having to censor the TV their children watch

the censor button
Let's just say you're the, you're the censor. You're the one with your hand on the censor button

censor discussion
censor discussion of the issue
an attempt to censor discussion of the of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre

What do they expect the press to do? Censor itself?

the censor blocked out parts of a document
the CIA censor blocked out parts of a memo written 45 years earlier by a senior FBI official

Don' t censor yourself!

censor yourself
censor yourself to avoid arrest

carefully censor your own remarks, please
before he could censor himself he blurted out the embarassing remark

censor political opponents and harass competitors

sanitize and censor
Fox News was supposed to cover it as a news event and not sanitize it or censor it or package it in such a way that we couldn't find out what was going on

censor reports
his partisan political ties also led him to censor reports and refuse to cooperate with law enforcement agencies

not bothering to censor
she mouthed along, not bothering to censor his inappropriately irresistible lyrics

planning to censor
accusations of planning to censor
accusations that the Danish government was planning to censor the Qur'an

censorship quickly subverted
any attempt to censor would be quickly subverted by mass piracy and the Internet

intelligent censorship 
The state does not know enough about the consumers of pornography to intelligently censor what they get to think about

censor art
Don't censor anybody's art. Don't wave people off because you don't understand it

second guess the censor

censor everything you say
had to guard who you were from them, censor everything you said or did

a state could then censor any speech it likes by calling it pornographic

censor words
censor words like democracy and freedom
Then we have a case of China asserting its wish to censor and to censor words like democracy and freedom

censor websites
censor websites from around the world
How do they manage to censor Web sites from around the world? Well, technically it's rather easy

technically easy to censor
control information and censor the easy way

literary censor
with the air of a literary Censor

censor the film
a heavily censored film

censor film content
legislation to censor film content

you censor every response and action lest the real you slip out

internal censor within a company
You don't have a good internal censor within the company that tells you what is and isn't appropriate to reveal

censorship to manipulate a debate
This kind of exclusion can be used as a way to censor and manipulate political and academic debate in the United States

a filter, a censor

television censorship
he became the head television censor

agree to censor
Internet companies have agreed to censor their search engines to filter out material over-critical of authorities

chief censor
a censhorship board

local censor boards could ban scenes or films outright from their communities

strict censorship

come under tight censorship
impose censorship
the government imposed strict censorship on the media

press censorship
practice censorhsip

relax censorship
abolish censorship
censorship tightened
face censorship

this law did not censor a single word or picture

censor stuff

attempt to censor
attempted to censor controversial art

censor a reaction
Fox had to censor her reaction

Can China's government continue to censor all that is available online? Probably not

a system that governments have come to regulate and censor

Artists second-guess and censor themselves, fretting that their work might not be good enough

censor and suppress
this has diminished their power to censor and suppress

censor pornography
"the answer to sexual oppression and violence against women is not to censor pornography but to empower women to explore openly their own interests and pleasures" (Note: I didnt' say this)

censor a portal
When a government asks you to censor your portal, do you do it because that's local law
 
directly censor
censor statements
the U.S. government apparently does not directly censor these statements

material deemed objectionable by the censor

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