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How to use the word censorship in a Sentence?

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The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make no law which abridges freedom of speech or of the press. In order to sanction a system of censorship I would have to say that no law does not mean what it says, that no law is qualified to mean some laws. I cannot take this step.

Justice William O. Douglas

added by Normando
6 months ago

WITH THE EMBERS STILL BURNING: The scientific community has done a pronounced amount of hand-wringing about its involvement in the atomic bomb’s creation, and a disproportionately absent amount of the soul-searching with respects to its creation of the science of eugenics. The 450,000 deaths due to the bomb are relatively small in the shadow of the many millions dead as a result of National Socialism’s eugenic campaign. The casualties of The Holocaust are the casualties of the science of eugenics, which so many scientists had actively campaigned for leading up to World War II. Yet, the scientific community has confronted its complicity with collective silence and sometimes outright censorship.

A.E. Samaan

added by AlvaroSiman
1 year ago

Many AP courses, especially Many AP courses based in history and culture, deal with contested topics. The AP Program navigates those challenging waters by relying on our AP Principles. These principles make The AP Program abundantly clear that we stand against censorship and indoctrination equally.

College Board

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Beijing’s Golden Share initiative is about embedding the Chinese Communist Party within the nerve-centers of China’s most important internet-content companies, it’s about achieving pervasive surveillance, censorship and policing capabilities from the inside out.

Alex Capri

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Why did they devise censorship? To show a world which doesn’t exist, an ideal world, or what they envisaged as the ideal world. And we wanted to depict the world as it was.

Krzysztof Kieślowski

added by Normando
1 year ago

The files show the FBI acting as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government – from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA.

Matt Taibbi

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Our landmark lawsuit against the Biden administration for allegedly colluding with social media companies to censor freedom of speech has uncovered a vast ‘censorship enterprise,’ we plan to depose key Biden administration officials, and will continue to work to expose the federal government’s efforts to censor free speech.

Eric Schmitt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This latest revelation proves the CDC is rolling full steam ahead with their censorship campaign against citizens who speak up, this new scheme to use taxpayer money – intended to further scientific inquiry – to instead stifle researchers and anyone who dares dissent from the Biden administration's ever-changing COVID narrative is unsurprising and unacceptable.

Chip Roy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

After finding documentation of a collusive relationship between the Biden Administration and social media companies to censor free speech, we immediately filed a motion to get these officials under oath, it is high time we shine a light on this censorship enterprise and force these officials to come clean to the American people, and this ruling will allow us to do just that. We’ll keep pressing for the truth.

Eric Schmitt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What we’ve uncovered so far is at least 45 folks from the Biden administration were in constant communication with these social media platforms to censor and suppress speech, had weekly calls, censorship calls, and these social media platforms were changing terms of service to deplatform folks, in addition to that, you literally had a high-ranking Facebook official texting the surgeon general of the United States saying, ‘Hey, we did what you ask, what more can we do?’.

Eric Schmitt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For teachers and for students, what this amounts to is an escalating campaign of censorship. A dramatically increased chilling effect that is leading to all kinds of negative outcomes within the classroom.

Jeremy Young

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Today, the right faces a certain censorship, we see woke ideology and other extreme ideologies that aim to censor people who think like me.

Alice Cordier

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The fact that a social media influencer who is not politically motivated may inadvertently become a censorship target clearly sends a signal with chilling effects, in this regard, it may have adverse effects on the government's plan to boost the economy.

Rongbin Han

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Authorities are targeting people for content posted online, and regularly intimidating web platforms and social media services into complying with its censorship.

Jit Singh

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In Congress, Kevin is a tireless advocate for the people of Bakersfield and the Central Valley. He is working incredibly hard to Stop Inflation, Deliver Water Solutions, and Hold Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi Accountable for their catastrophic failures and dereliction of duty, as Leader, Kevin is building a' Commitment to America' platform to Grow our Economy, Fight Big Tech Censorship, Secure the Border, Strengthen our Military, Defend the Second Amendment, Improve our Health Care, Restore American Energy Independence, Support our Brave Veterans, and Uphold the Rule of Law and American Values.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

Mark Twain

added by Normando
2 years ago

Under the leadership of Governor Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida has led the way on election security and preserving freedom for its residents, as Secretary of State, I will make sure Florida continues to have secure elections and that we protect the freedom of our citizens in the face of big-tech censorship and ever-growing cybersecurity threats.

Cord Byrd

Found on CNN
2 years ago

By' free speech,' I simply mean that which matches the law, i am against censorship that goes far beyond the law. If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect.

Elon Musk

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Twitter has, over the years, refused to comply with unjust laws, laws that are not in line with international human rights standards, i am definitely concerned that [ Musk ] lacks the understanding of international human rights issues, and the ways in which state actors around the world have both placed demands for censorship on these platforms and have used them for the purposes of harm.

Jillian York

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We often see attempts on campuses to compel speech under the guise of 'inclusion'. Policies like these can put students in situations where they no longer feel they are able to speak freely. This type of policy opens the door for a culture of censorship.

Cherise Trump

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Long before the Kremlin launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it had stepped up its campaign of disinformation and censorship of independent media and continues to do so even during the war of aggression.

The State Department

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Speaking of poison, unlike processed food, which is bad to consume, art should be the polar opposite: it should be over-processed to the point of being dangerous. To be deemed subversive, and intriguing to the eye and intellect, it must induce some form and degree of disruption. In that perspective, art is always safe, despite of idiotic censorship, as long as you don't eat it.”

Adamo Macri

added by anonymous
2 years ago

Putting politicians in control of classrooms and lecture halls is a slap in the face to all Americans who value freedom and local control, and we will fight this blatant censorship with every fiber of our being.

Randi Weingarten

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Make no mistake: these bills are an attack on Missouri students, they have the right to learn in classrooms free from censorship.

Paula Brown

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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