censor
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"They want people to work out the red lines for themselves, or to censor themselves before crossing them."
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
A: Being censored by others is one thing but I do not censor myself.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
Cue Mr. Carr, his wannabe censor at the FCC.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
In the latter case, it’s a question of who do we censor in our public spaces, how we make sure our public spaces are accountable to people.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2026
She is glad it passes through a censor.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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Some of its obfuscation tools, designed to bypass censors in restricted countries, have not performed well in highly restrictive environments like China and Russia.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
Mr. Millepied’s urge to reinterpret for contemporary audiences Prokofiev’s often heavy-going score, which the composer created under the thumb of Soviet censors, seems more than understandable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026
But tens of thousands of Iranians possess the satellite terminals, analysts and activists say, using them to maintain contact with like-minded citizens and share information outside the control of government firewalls and censors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
The Internet Freedom Foundation said the compressed timeline would transform platforms into "rapid fire censors".
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026
They were given the new job, as custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior; official censors, judges, and executors.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
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Still, references to dark chapters of his decades in absolute power are tightly censored in public discourse.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
“In 37 years, I’ve never seen creative work get censored by theaters in this country,” Arthur Sarkissian, Global Ascension Studios’ former head of production, who was involved in the project, told Deadline at the time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
"I asked the festival team multiple times if anything needed to be censored and was told it didn't," she added.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
The ads use implicit phrases and censored visuals in an attempt to avoid moderation, Patane found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
We were soon able to supplement these papers with copies of the Star, the Rand Daily Mail, and the Sunday Times, but these papers were even more heavily censored.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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The lawmakers said the measure was "not about censoring a service or banning a social network; it is about no longer brandishing a threat that nobody believes in".
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
We are explicitly prohibited from censoring broadcasters, but this is censorship.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026
As Salon has reported before, these things can appear extremely bright in the night sky, vexing astronomers and essentially censoring the stars.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026
Google famously exited the Chinese internet search market in 2010 after deciding it wasn’t comfortable censoring results to abide by the government’s censorship rules.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
Ithepen of the Eynyen District, who has been curious about the Alien Mission since, while working for the Sarf, he was in charge of censoring the broadcasts we sent out from Erhenrang.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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