Censorship: Silencing Of Speech

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Censorship is putting an end to or the silencing of speech, public communication, or any other information in which the content is interpreted as harmful, objectionable or politically incorrect. Two of the key aspects of censorship are content neutrality which is defined to be that the government can’t regulate speech based on the ideology of the message and government paradigms which basically concludes to the government being neutral about the speech.

Censorship is found in the text when Faber admits his contribution in helping the government bring about censorship. It couldn't have been possible without the role of the people. Faber implies in this quote…"I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I'm one of

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of all eligible citizens to have an equal say in political direction, the nature of social movements would suggest that countries with a largely visible presence of these movements are exercising the branch of democracy that relates to freedom of speech and opinion quite well. Urbanisation and proletarianisation in democracies have also contributed to the development and rapid uptake of social movements (Tarrow and Meyer 1998). The introduction of communications technology for and readily accessible…

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