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censorship

/sen-ser-ship/US // ˈsɛn sərˌʃɪp //UK // (ˈsɛnsəˌʃɪp) //

审查制度,查禁,审查,检查制度

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act or practice of censoring.
    • : the office or power of a censor.
    • : the time during which a censor holds office.
    • : the inhibiting and distorting activity of the Freudian censor.

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Examples

  • While Republicans cried censorship, Democrats urged Silicon Valley to go even further to prevent future incitements of violence.

  • Wang, the plaintiffs’ attorney, said all users in the United States should be free from censorship.

  • In his speech at VOA headquarters, Pompeo spoke about “American exceptionalism” and criticized censorship by governments in China, Iran and elsewhere.

  • Others claim that stricter moderation amounts to censorship and pushes users to darker corners of the internet.

  • It was a useful way to contact people back home, but he experienced censorship early on, hearing from friends in China that they couldn’t see his political posts.

  • The CDA was passed not in the name of censorship but in the name of protecting children from stumbling across sexual material.

  • He was referring to web censorship behind the Great Firewall.

  • He added, “We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the United States.”

  • Jordan also banned it, and Malaysia, Egypt, and Indonesia subjected it to their censorship boards.

  • To many of us, that smacks of censorship, the highest offense to our pride in self-publicity.

  • The press censorship is a negative evil in London; in Cairo there is no doubt it is positive.

  • It was the conflict of material interests and the friarsʼ censorship which created the breach between the vicar and the people.

  • But the merciless excisions of inoffensive passages by the Austrian censorship destroyed the journal in a year.

  • Adolphe, who arrogates to himself the right of censorship, no longer finds the slightest suggestion to make.

  • The censorship was more rigid than ever, and Fouch was instructed to stop indiscreet private letters from the army.