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Recent Examples of censorship
Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society.
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Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2025
Former White House cybersecurity advisor Carol House suggested in a 2023 talk that network-level censorship could serve national interests, demonstrating the potential to regulate bitcoin under the guise of national security.
—Susie Violet Ward, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
VPNs allow people to route their internet traffic through servers often in other countries as a way to sidestep censorship and get around bans.
—Alexandra Marquez, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2025
American users navigate language barriers and censorship RedNote's new American users are confronting the potentially taboo topics of privacy and censorship head-on.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
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Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2025
Former White House cybersecurity advisor Carol House suggested in a 2023 talk that network-level censorship could serve national interests, demonstrating the potential to regulate bitcoin under the guise of national security.
—Susie Violet Ward, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
VPNs allow people to route their internet traffic through servers often in other countries as a way to sidestep censorship and get around bans.
—Alexandra Marquez, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2025
American users navigate language barriers and censorship RedNote's new American users are confronting the potentially taboo topics of privacy and censorship head-on.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Censorship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/censorship. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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