Sentences with phrase «imposed censorship»

This grassroots practice to evade officially imposed censorship was fraught with danger as harsh punishments were meted out to people caught possessing or copying censored materials.

Some Christians seek to impose censorship on the mass media to exclude some opinions and enforce others.

A campaign currently at work in South Africa, for example, is calling on individuals to block a government - approved effort by the Film and Publications Board's (FPB) that would essentially impose censorship on any internet - vehicled content.

REPLY: Only government can impose censorship, you should know that since you work for a government entity.

Not exact matches

This is no surprise, considering the length of censorship that the Great Firewall of China may impose on their people.

The film industry practiced voluntary restraint in 1968 to prevent local censorship boards from imposing restrictions on moviemaking.

Given these definitions, propaganda and censorship are not something imposed on the people by evil manipulators.

I am thinking here of the severe censorship imposed on his books and the restrictions applied by the Vatican to his liberty of action and speaking, which resulted, eventually, in his leaving the Franciscan Order and the priesthood in 1992.

This scene speaks to the fortunate ability of art to bypass the inane sorts of censorship imposed by stodgy institutions like the MPAA (which gave this one an NC - 17, enraging such critics as Roger Ebert).

In a session of particular pertinence to many of the world's publishing markets today, Shukri Al Mabkhout — the 2015 winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for Al Talyeni (The Italian)-- led a panel discussion titled «Censorship in the Arab World: Restrictions Imposed on Cultural Expression and its Impact on Creativity.»

Censorship is imposed on foreign games which means that a lot of popular console games in the West, like Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto, are banned on console in China due to going against Chinese cultural values.

«There is no form of censorship to be imposed on any art displayed here.

China's Wang Keping, co-founder of The Stars and self - imposed exile, is having a solo exhibition at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art from 27 September 2013 to 5 January 2014, but rumours of censorship already shadow the show.

Ai Weiwei's Golden Age is a response to widespread government surveillance programs, the limitations imposed by censorship, and the proliferation of social media and free exchange of information despite such restrictions.

Censorship restrictions were imposed on the exhibition so only one image could be viewed at a time.

At a minimum, a desire to impose blatant censorship by intolerance - figuratively, the Democrats» version of a public beheading.

The moral straitjacketing of anyone who raises a critical peep about eco-orthodoxies is part of a growing «new secular public morality», he says, «which seeks to impose its views on others, even at the cost of political censorship».

The silence of the others had to be self - censorship imposed by no authority but by a rather universal cultural bias....

Censorship mechanisms which are imposed by governments often not only prevents certain discourse, but also identifies and punishes those who engage in what authorities may perceive as the wrong, or a form of distasteful, discourse.