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*[[Internet censorship]] employed by a country, which can include such things as the filtering of anti-government sites in [[China]] or the censoring of [[women's rights]] or anti-[[Islam]] sites in [[Middle East]]ern, and other countries

[[Image:Hitler-3.jpg‎ |right|400px|thumb|Adolf Hitler's rise to power was greatly aided by '''censoring''' his critics.<ref>http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/censorship_in_nazi_germany.htm Censorship in Nazi Germany</ref><ref>[http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007677 US Holocaust Museum]</ref><ref>[http://www.historyofpainters.com/entartete.htm Censorship of media and the fine arts]</ref><ref>[http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/bibliography/index.php?content=1933_bookburning Essay on Bookburning]</ref>]]

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*Schools banning or using [[placement bias]] to keep students from books including the [[Bible]], or books critical of the [[theory of evolution]] or science..

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* Schools banning or using [[placement bias]] to keep students from books including the [[Bible]], or books critical of the [[theory of evolution]] or science.

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*[[Big Tech]], acting in collusion with each other, engaged in illegal censorship<ref>[https://thenationalsentinel.com/2018/08/28/potus-trump-blasts-illegal-social-media-bias-and-censorship-vows-actions/ POTUS Trump blasts ‘illegal’ social media BIAS and censorship, vows actions]</ref><ref>[https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/28/trump-accuses-google-of-rigging-search-results-in-favor-of-bad-coverage.html Trump: Facebook, Twitter, Google are ‘treading on very, very troubled territory and they have to be careful’]</ref><ref>Xiao, Bowen (July 24, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/young-conservatives-feel-they-cant-express-themselves-on-social-media_3014868.html Young Conservatives Feel They Can’t Express Themselves on Social Media]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved July 24, 2019.</ref> of conservatives and Christians, in violation of both the First Amendment<ref>[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/twitters-censorship-may-be-unconstitutional Twitter's censorship may be unconstitutional] at the ''Washington Examiner''</ref> (and equivalent free speech laws in other countries) and civil rights<ref>[https://civilrights.findlaw.com/enforcing-your-civil-rights/social-media-censorship-and-the-law.html Social Media Censorship and the Law]</ref> and anti-trust laws in the US<ref>[https://www.newstarget.com/2019-02-27-conservative-publishers-targeted-for-censorship-by-facebook-class-action-suit.html Conservative publishers targeted for censorship by Facebook speech Nazis should LINE up to file class-action suit against the social media giant]</ref><ref>[https://helenaglass.net/2018/10/23/facebook-censorship-an-anti-trust-resolution/ Facebook Censorship – An Anti-Trust Resolution?]</ref> and other countries.<ref>Bomberger, Ryan (May 10, 2019). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/big-techs-separate-and-unequal-treatment-of-christians-and-conservatives Big Tech’s separate and unequal treatment of Christians and conservatives]. ''LifeSiteNews'' (from the ''Radiance Foundation''). Retrieved May 10, 2019.</ref> In August 2018, multiple social media giants, with the support of the Left, mainstream media, and Democrats,<ref>Multiple references:

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* [[Big Tech]], acting in collusion with each other, engaged in illegal censorship<ref>[https://thenationalsentinel.com/2018/08/28/potus-trump-blasts-illegal-social-media-bias-and-censorship-vows-actions/ POTUS Trump blasts ‘illegal’ social media BIAS and censorship, vows actions]</ref><ref>[https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/28/trump-accuses-google-of-rigging-search-results-in-favor-of-bad-coverage.html Trump: Facebook, Twitter, Google are ‘treading on very, very troubled territory and they have to be careful’]</ref><ref>Xiao, Bowen (July 24, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/young-conservatives-feel-they-cant-express-themselves-on-social-media_3014868.html Young Conservatives Feel They Can’t Express Themselves on Social Media]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved July 24, 2019.</ref> of conservatives and Christians, in violation of both the First Amendment<ref>[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/twitters-censorship-may-be-unconstitutional Twitter's censorship may be unconstitutional] at the ''Washington Examiner''</ref> (and equivalent free speech laws in other countries) and civil rights<ref>[https://civilrights.findlaw.com/enforcing-your-civil-rights/social-media-censorship-and-the-law.html Social Media Censorship and the Law]</ref> and anti-trust laws in the US<ref>[https://www.newstarget.com/2019-02-27-conservative-publishers-targeted-for-censorship-by-facebook-class-action-suit.html Conservative publishers targeted for censorship by Facebook speech Nazis should LINE up to file class-action suit against the social media giant]</ref><ref>[https://helenaglass.net/2018/10/23/facebook-censorship-an-anti-trust-resolution/ Facebook Censorship – An Anti-Trust Resolution?]</ref> and other countries.<ref>Bomberger, Ryan (May 10, 2019). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/big-techs-separate-and-unequal-treatment-of-christians-and-conservatives Big Tech’s separate and unequal treatment of Christians and conservatives]. ''LifeSiteNews'' (from the ''Radiance Foundation''). Retrieved May 10, 2019.</ref> In August 2018, multiple social media giants, with the support of the Left, mainstream media, and Democrats,<ref>Multiple references:

*Bokhari, Allum (August 6, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/08/06/infowars-ban-cnn-democrats-successfully-lobby-big-tech-to-censor-their-critics/ InfoWars Ban: CNN, Democrats Successfully Lobby Big Tech to Censor Their Critics]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved August 6, 2018.

*Hudson, Jerome (August 6, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/08/06/hollywood-celebrates-masters-of-the-universe-banning-alex-jones-its-about-damn-time/ Hollywood Celebrates Masters of the Universe Banning Alex Jones: ‘It’s About Damn Time’]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved August 7, 2018.

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*Caplan, Joshua (August 6, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/08/06/alex-jones-tech-giants-running-circles-around-incredibly-stupid-republican-lawmakers/ Alex Jones: Tech Giants Running Circles Around ‘Incredibly Stupid’ Republican Lawmakers]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved August 6, 2018.

*Newman, Alex (September 7, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/print-magazine/item/29973-big-tech-censors-alex-jones-whos-next Big Tech Censors Alex Jones — Who’s Next?] ''The New American''. Retrieved September 7, 2018.</ref> In February 2019, Facebook removed 22 pages related to Jones and InfoWars.<ref>Bowden, John (February 5, 2019). [https://thehill.com/policy/technology/428573-facebook-removes-22-pages-linked-to-alex-jones-infowars Facebook removes 22 pages linked to Alex Jones, InfoWars]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved February 5, 2019.</ref>

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*Various studies have found that [[Facebook]] and [[Google]], among other social media platforms, engage in censorship against conservatives.<ref>Duke, Selwyn (August 28, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/29900-google-is-not-a-search-engine-twitter-and-facebook-aren-t-social-media Google Is Not a Search Engine; Twitter and Facebook Aren’t Social Media]. ''The New American''. Retrieved August 28, 2018.</ref><ref>Haverluck, Michael F. (March 16, 2018). [https://onenewsnow.com/media/2018/03/16/facebook-algorithm-kills-conservative-news-feeds-boosts-lefts Facebook algorithm kills conservative news feeds, boosts left's]. ''OneNewsNow''. Retrieved August 28, 2018.</ref>

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* Various studies have found that [[Facebook]] and [[Google]], among other social media platforms, engage in censorship against conservatives.<ref>Duke, Selwyn (August 28, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/29900-google-is-not-a-search-engine-twitter-and-facebook-aren-t-social-media Google Is Not a Search Engine; Twitter and Facebook Aren’t Social Media]. ''The New American''. Retrieved August 28, 2018.</ref><ref>Haverluck, Michael F. (March 16, 2018). [https://onenewsnow.com/media/2018/03/16/facebook-algorithm-kills-conservative-news-feeds-boosts-lefts Facebook algorithm kills conservative news feeds, boosts left's]. ''OneNewsNow''. Retrieved August 28, 2018.</ref>

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*In 2018, [[Brown University]] censored a study on transgender youth because it did not approve of the study's results, worrying that its findings might "invalidate the perspectives" of transgender people.<ref>Mikelionis, Lukas (August 30, 2018). [https://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/30/brown-u-pulls-gender-dysphoria-study-worried-that-findings-might-invalidate-perspectives-transgender-community.html Brown U. censors 'gender dysphoria' study, worried that findings might 'invalidate the perspectives' of transgender community]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved September 19, 2018.</ref>

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* In 2018, [[Brown University]] censored a study on transgender youth because it did not approve of the study's results, worrying that its findings might "invalidate the perspectives" of transgender people.<ref>Mikelionis, Lukas (August 30, 2018). [https://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/30/brown-u-pulls-gender-dysphoria-study-worried-that-findings-might-invalidate-perspectives-transgender-community.html Brown U. censors 'gender dysphoria' study, worried that findings might 'invalidate the perspectives' of transgender community]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved September 19, 2018.</ref>

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*Facebook banned several people whose views it opposed, labeling them "dangerous," even though they did not violate the site's terms<ref>Multiple references:

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* Facebook banned several people whose views it opposed, labeling them "dangerous," even though they did not violate the site's terms<ref>Multiple references:

*Murphy, James (May 3, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/computers/item/32187-war-on-free-speech-facebook-bans-people-it-considers-dangerous War on Free Speech: Facebook Bans People It Considers “Dangerous”]. ''The New American''. Retrieved May 3, 2019.

*Nolan, Lucas (May 2, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/05/02/facebook-blacklists-prominent-conservatives-including-paul-joseph-watson-laura-loomer/ Facebook Blacklists Prominent Conservatives Including Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved May 3, 2019.

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*Freiburger, Calvin (May 3, 2019). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/facebook-allows-left-wing-page-to-fantasize-about-trump-assassination-funeral Facebook allows left-wing page to fantasize about Pres. Trump assassination, funeral]. ''LifeSiteNews''. Retrieved May 4, 2019.</ref>

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Political censorship involves a government preventing information from reaching its citizens. Perhaps the best-known contemporary example of this is China's censorship of the [[Google]] search engine, known as the "Golden Shield Project", which prevents Google from displaying search results of some human rights websites, websites promoting Tibetan independence, references to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, and others. A famous example in fiction is George Orwell's novel ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'', in which the main character works as a civil servant in the department responsible for altering or destroying historical information which the government wishes to keep secret. The rationale behind political censorship is that the political party in power can protect itself from revolution if the public is kept uninformed.

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Political censorship involves a government preventing information from reaching its citizens. Perhaps the best-known contemporary example of this is China's censorship of the [[Google]] search engine, known as the "Golden Shield Project", which prevents Google from displaying search results of some human rights websites, websites promoting Tibetan independence, references to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, and others. A famous example in fiction is George Orwell's novel ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'', in which the main character works as a civil servant in the department responsible for altering or destroying historical information which the government wishes to keep secret. The rationale behind political censorship is that the political party in power can protect itself from revolution if the public is kept uninformed.

Ironically, liberals and leftists have also at times advocated against censorship, although strictly so they can ensure a revolution that brings themselves and their left-wing politics into power. Examples include the communist [[George Bernard Shaw]], who had advocated the removal of censorship specifically to ensure "progress" (i.e., communism) can be brought into the UK in his preface to "Mrs. Warren's Profession".<ref name="The Author's Apology" /> Similarly, the Philosophes such as Voltaire and Diderot have demanded for absolute freedom of speech specifically to push their anti-Christian agenda on the masses, which ultimately resulted in the anti-Christian nature of the French Revolution,<ref>http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05418a.htm</ref><ref>http://myemail.constantcontact.com/JAN--11---Plot-to-destroy-Christianity-revealed-by-Yale-President-Timothy-Dwight.html?soid=1108762609255&aid=CbibQMZY5JY</ref> and the Free Speech movement in 1964 tried to allow the Communists unrestrained freedom of speech as well specifically to silence criticism against the Communist movement. On a similar note, both the then-radicalized American Library Association and the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] (the latter of whom was partly responsible for the former's radicalization) advocated against censorship, even managing to radically interpret the [[First Amendment]] as implying a right to receive any and all information as well as protecting pornography in the Constitution and considering minors to have legally the same rights as consenting adults, all while also claiming that even the smallest limitation to any speech or expression in any capacity is equivalent to totalitarian repression. to the extent of automatically leading to it.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/19980119060706/http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/1996/feb96/focus.html<br />"Where did the ALA's current, radically [[Subjectivism|subjectivist]]/individualist philosophy come from? The ALA, which constantly quotes from the First Amendment and whose brochures picture the Founding Fathers, would have you believe that it springs from James Madison's Enlightenment ideas about freedom. Not so. The ALA's philosophy comes from four sources: first, the later Enlightenment philosopher, Voltaire, who was hostile to all revealed religion. Second, to John Stuart Mill, whose mid-19th century writing preached that the individual is sovereign over his own mind and body, and who shifted the focus of life away from helping others toward the need to fulfill the self. Yet, even Mill believed that freedom should stop short of harm to others. Thus, he accepted the need for libel and slander laws, and believed that children needed protection from themselves. The ALA has rejected this idea of the Right to Protect and has instead accepted the nihilistic ideas of the 19th century German philosopher, Friedrick Nietsche, who preached the now-familiar refrain that "God is dead" and that there is no common good to which we are all responsible. The fourth source is Jean-Paul Sartre, the French existentialist who was so fashionable in the 1940s. He held the absolute freedom of the individual to be the highest good and yet saw all values as relative. His idea that there are no rules by which we must govern our conduct dispenses handily with Madison's idea that the Ten Commandments are necessary for peaceful self-government. <br />

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More specifically, the government should not exercise "prior restraint." That is, a citizen should not need advance permission from the government in order to publish something, unless it threatens [[national security]]. This does not mean that publication may not have consequences: a citizen can be sued for publishing [[libel]], or incarcerated for disclosing military secrets, but the consequences typically occur ''after'' publication, not before.

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Censorship is sometimes applied to prohibit obscenity that goes against common standards of public [[morality]]; under US law the first amendment does not protect material considered legally obscene. The definition of obscenity has and continues to vary, with the current Supreme Court definition being the [[Miller test]]. In practical terms, this allows harmful material such as pornography to be criminalized without violating the First Amendment.

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Censorship is sometimes applied to prohibit obscenity that goes against common standards of public [[morality]]; under US law, the first amendment does not protect material considered legally obscene. The definition of obscenity has and continues to vary, with the current Supreme Court definition being the [[Miller test]]. In practical terms, this allows harmful material such as pornography to be criminalized without violating the First Amendment.

Censorship may also be directed at religious ideas, as in the Saudi Arabian prohibition on preaching Christianity, liberal restrictions on public expressions of religion, or the Roman Catholic Church's now-rescinded ''Index Librorum Prohibitorum''.

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== Quotes ==

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*''All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.'' '''[[George Bernard Shaw]]<ref name="The Author's Apology">"The Author's Apology, preface to "Mrs. Warren's Profession."</ref>

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* ''All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.'' '''[[George Bernard Shaw]]<ref name="The Author's Apology">"The Author's Apology, preface to "Mrs. Warren's Profession."</ref>

==See also==

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* [[Tails (operating system)]] ([[Linux]]-based) and [[Tor (anonymity network)]]

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*[[Right to Privacy]] ([[Internet privacy]])

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* [[Right to Privacy]] ([[Internet privacy]])

* [[Encryption]]: [[Cryptography]]-[[Cryptanalysis]]-[[Cryptology]]-[[Public-key encryption]]

* [[Conservative values]] and [[Libertarian]] [[American values]] of [[Limited government]] and [[liberty]]

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