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Recent Examples of censorship
Critics and rights groups argued that both the ban and the bill function as tools for censorship, threatening freedom of expression, press freedom and fundamental rights.
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Nir Kshetri, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2025
Proton is commonly used by people seeking highly secure communications and has been blocked in countries with strict internet censorship, like Russia and Turkey.
—Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 13 Sep. 2025
To condemn these slogans isn’t to call for censorship or criminalization.
—Andrew Weinstein, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
The censorship of independent media, the de facto ban on YouTube and the persecution of journalists, artists, and researchers adds to the repression.
—Yegor Mostovshikov, The Dial, 9 Sep. 2025
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Nir Kshetri, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2025
Proton is commonly used by people seeking highly secure communications and has been blocked in countries with strict internet censorship, like Russia and Turkey.
—Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 13 Sep. 2025
To condemn these slogans isn’t to call for censorship or criminalization.
—Andrew Weinstein, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
The censorship of independent media, the de facto ban on YouTube and the persecution of journalists, artists, and researchers adds to the repression.
—Yegor Mostovshikov, The Dial, 9 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for censorship
suppression
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In the years following the murder of George Floyd, despite the pledges and proclamations supposedly supporting racial equity and justice, many creators reported censorship and suppression online.—
Janice Gassam Asare,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Any foreign order demanding the removal or suppression of such speech faces major constitutional hurdles.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Censorship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/censorship. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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