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The 189 pages that link to Censorship, each with the reason it gives.

• Political artRelated: Attempts to suppress political art reveal conflicts over expression and power.

• Erotic literatureRelated: Censors have restricted erotic writing through bans, seizures, and limits on distribution.

• InterpretationRelated: Authorities may restrict works because of the meanings they assign to them.

• Mass communicationRelated: Control over mass channels can determine which messages audiences may encounter.

• Roman InquisitionNarrower topic: The tribunal’s licensing and prohibitions made censorship a durable tool of Catholic discipline.

• Salman RushdieRelated: Bans and threats surrounding his work expose the costs of controlling literature.

• UlyssesRelated: Bans and prosecutions delayed the novel’s circulation in several countries.

• Media ethicsCompared with: It can prevent harm but also block information the public needs.

• Voice of AmericaRelated: VOA has sought to reach audiences whose domestic media are censored or controlled.

• BlasphemyRelated: Claims of blasphemy have been used to justify restricting books, art, and public speech.

• The Protocols of the Elders of ZionRelated: Bans and takedowns raise questions about limiting circulation without obscuring historical evidence.

• War poetryRelated: Restrictions on wartime writing shape which testimony and criticism can reach the public.

• Art patronageRelated: A patron's control over funding can limit subjects, styles, or public display.

• EuphemismRelated: Censorship restricts what may be said, while euphemism substitutes indirect wording for a forbidden or sensitive expression.

• FreedomCompared with: It is a direct institutional limit on freedom of expression.

• State of siegeRelated: Restrictions on the press and communications are common tools of emergency control.

• Editorial boardCompared with: Editorial control can be confused with censorship, though their purposes and safeguards differ.

• Index Librorum ProhibitorumNarrower topic: The Index was a formal system of religious censorship.

• Media representationCompared with: Omission may result from representational choices, whereas censorship restricts expression directly.

• Nineteen Eighty-FourRelated: The Party removes records and controls what information can circulate.

• Political symbolismCompared with: Bans on flags, emblems, or gestures show how authorities police symbolic expression.

• Queer literatureRelated: Restrictions have shaped what queer authors could publish and how openly they could write.

• State mediaRelated: State outlets can enforce official limits on reporting as well as face external censorship.

• War filmRelated: Governments and military institutions have restricted or influenced war films and their depictions.

• Andrea DworkinRelated: Critics argued that her proposed ordinances would censor sexually explicit expression.

• Animal FarmRelated: The regime controls what animals know about the farm’s past and present.

• EroticismRelated: Restrictions on sexual representation have shaped what erotic works can show and circulate.

• Music censorshipNarrower topic: Music censorship is one form of the broader control of expression.

• Blasphemy lawRelated: Authorities may use blasphemy rules to block or remove allegedly sacrilegious expression.

• Book burningRelated: Book burning makes censorship physically visible by destroying the works it seeks to exclude.

• EroticaRelated: Restrictions on erotic works expose conflicts between sexual expression and public control.

• LGBTQ representation in mediaNarrower topic: Censorship has limited which LGBTQ stories could be produced or shown.

• Negative libertyRelated: Restrictions on expression are direct limits on a central domain of negative liberty.

• PamphletRelated: Pamphlets' portability and political force made them frequent targets of censorship.

• Plato's RepublicRelated: Plato’s proposals to regulate poetry and stories raise enduring questions about art and political control.

• Print cultureRelated: Control over presses and publications determined which texts could circulate.

• Streisand effectNarrower topic: The effect is a possible consequence of censorship efforts.

• Anti-fascismRelated: Debates arise when anti-fascist efforts to deny platforms are compared with restrictions on expression.

• BogotazoRelated: Contested and interrupted communications shaped what people knew during the crisis.

• Propaganda filmRelated: Control over what films can be made or shown helps shape the messages audiences encounter.

• Royal patronageCompared with: Dependence on royal favor could expose artists and scholars to limits on acceptable work.

• Social EpistemologyRelated: It alters which claims can enter public inquiry and collective memory.

• AgitpropCompared with: Agitprop seeks to circulate messages, while censorship limits which messages can appear.

• AutocracyRelated: Control of public information can limit criticism and coordinate opposition.

• Cultural policyCompared with: Policies that expand cultural access can conflict with state controls over expression.

• Pin-upRelated: Public display of pin-ups has repeatedly faced restrictions over obscenity and propriety.

• Poetry and politicsRelated: Political poems encounter censorship through bans, prosecutions, and limits on publication.

• Political posterRelated: Authorities may remove posters when public political messaging challenges their control.

• PublishingRelated: Publishing decisions and government controls can determine which works reach the public.

• Reporters Without BordersRelated: Documenting and challenging censorship is a recurring focus of its campaigns.