2025年3月18日 · It should be instructive to consider how the problem of censorship has been dealt with in the ancient world, in premodern times, and in the modern world. Care must be taken here not to assume that the modern democratic regime, of a self-governing people, is the only legitimate regime.

2025年3月18日 · Censorship, the changing or suppression or prohibition of speech or writing that is deemed subversive of the common good. It occurs in all manifestations of authority to some degree, but in modern times it has been of special importance in its …

In the late 20th century, some called for censorship of so-called hate speech, language deemed threatening (or sometimes merely offensive) to various subsections of the population. Censorship in the U.S. is usually opposed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

2025年3月18日 · Such questions reflect the fact that censorship and freedom of the press problems depend for their sensible resolution upon more general considerations of liberty, of the common good, and of the rights, virtues, and duties of citizens entrusted with self-government.

2025年3月18日 · The ultimate in censorship may be seen, in the novel, in a technology and an ideology that permit government to edit not only what is being said today and tomorrow but also what is recorded or remembered to have been said yesterday.

2025年2月26日 · However, this commonly accepted form of censorship again became a political flashpoint starting in 2021 as national groups of social conservatives and conservative politicians began making a concerted effort to remove a multitude of children’s and young-adult books from library shelves, primarily those written from the perspectives of people ...

Governments and religious leaders have practiced censorship since ancient times. In ancient Rome, someone who criticized the government might be fined, removed from society, or put to death. The early Roman Catholic church censored anything that …

2025年3月18日 · Censorship - Military, Government, Control: Particularly revealing in this respect was what happened in Greece between 1967 and 1974, when a conspiracy of junior army officers seized control of the government.

2025年2月18日 · Those who are most strongly opposed to so-called “political correctness” view it as censorship and a curtailment of freedom of speech that places limits on debates in the public arena. They contend that such language boundaries inevitably lead to self-censorship and restrictions on behaviour.

Censorship has been enforced through harassment, imprisonment, and even executions of alleged offenders. The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates was sentenced to death for “corrupting” the youth of Athens and for questioning the religious beliefs of the times.