What does self-censorship mean?
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self-censorshipnoun
The act of censoring one's own work or what one says without overt pressure from any specific party or institution of authority, often for fear of sanctions.
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Self-censorship
Self-censorship is the act of censoring or classifying one's own discourse. This is done out of fear of, or deference to, the sensibilities or preferences (actual or perceived) of others and without overt pressure from any specific party or institution of authority. Self-censorship is often practiced by film producers, film directors, publishers, news anchors, journalists, musicians, and other kinds of authors including individuals who use social media. Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights guarantees freedom of speech from all forms of censorship. Article 19 explicitly states that "everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."The practice of self-censorship, like that of censorship itself, has a long history.
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Self-censorship
Self-censorship is the act of censoring or classifying one's own work, out of fear of, or deference to, the sensibilities of others, without overt pressure from any specific party or institution of authority. Self-censorship is often practiced by film producers, film directors, publishers, news anchors, journalists, musicians, and other kinds of authors. In authoritarian countries, creators of artworks may remove material that their government might find controversial for fear of sanction by their governments. In pluralistic capitalist countries repressive judicial lawmaking can also cause widespread "rivercrabbing" of Western media. Self-censorship can also occur, particularly in order to conform to the expectations of the market. For example, the editor of a periodical may consciously or unconsciously avoid topics that will anger advertisers or a parent company in order to protect her or his livelihood. This phenomenon is referred to as soft censorship.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of self-censorship in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of self-censorship in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of self-censorship in a Sentence
But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multi-party democracy.
The effect of the violence is a kind of self-censorship, you have to know the rules – how the gangs or police or a local politician here or there will respond to a certain story – but those rules can change quickly.
The recent protests awakened a lot of students, resulting in an increased level of political awareness generally, there may be some kind of self-censorship after (the law) has been implemented, but Hong Kongers are resilient and creative.
This kind of action will inevitably bring self-censorship, less criticism of policy, fewer checks and balances in the system, and this might be seen as part of the institutional weakening that the ratings agencies highlighted.
It’s really quite amazing when you think that freedom of the press, not only a cornerstone of the Constitution but very much something the United States defended over the years, is now itself under attack from the president himself, it’s a sort of stunning turnaround, ultimately the sequences are a dangerous one. You have incitement, fear, self-censorship, banning and then violence.
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