censor
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A: Being censored by others is one thing but I do not censor myself.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
David Loy, the legal director for the nonpartisan First Amendment Coalition, said the measure would censor the free speech of all citizens, not just those who defamed or threatened immigrant aid workers.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
And we better hope they do, for the sake of so many other media enterprises Carr will undoubtedly pursue and hope to censor.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2026
Yulia, who owns a catering company, explains how attempts to censor the internet have affected her business.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
Her letters consist mostly of banalities—we are busy; Frau Elena says hello—or else arrive in his bunkroom so full of censor marks that their meaning has disintegrated.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Tens of thousands of Iranians use them to connect with loved ones domestically and abroad, and to share information outside the control of government firewalls and censors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Lantern and other tools are constantly discovering new approaches or vulnerabilities, while censors such as Iran discover new ways to shut them down.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
The Internet Freedom Foundation said the compressed timeline would transform platforms into "rapid fire censors".
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026
They’re the ones who sound like out-of-touch censors trying to police popular culture.
From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2026
That is why every G.I. letter home was read by censors who often blacked out big sections.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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“While data is imperfect and internet use remains heavily censored; we think the reports of restoration of connectivity implies the Iran regime expects a conclusion of the conflict is imminent,” Flight says.
From MarketWatch ● May 29, 2026
All letters exchanged with Russian prisoners are read, and often censored, by the Russian authorities.
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
Like other Chinese chatbots, DeepSeek's AI tools eschew topics usually censored in the world's second-largest economy, such as the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
Tony Lyons, the company’s publisher, said the imprint will “give a platform to things that would, in many cases, be shut down, be censored, and be covered over by propaganda.”
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2026
William was soon required to surrender additional documents to the NSA, and his talks and lectures were censored.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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Bypassing censorship Some jurisdictions are more restrictive than others, with many heavily censoring Internet access.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026
The FCC says on its website that the "First Amendment and the Communications Act expressly prohibit the Commission from censoring broadcast matter".
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2026
A short while later, it introduced rules censoring the input and output of generative AI models, a tightening of earlier rules that required tech companies to disclose extensive details about their algorithms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
But that doesn’t matter: The First Amendment generally prohibits the government from censoring even false or misleading speech, with no carve-out for opinionated comedians.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2025
Catch-22 required that each censored letter bear the censoring officer’s name.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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