censor
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David Loy, the legal director for the nonpartisan First Amendment Coalition, said the measure would censor the free speech of all citizens, not just those who defamed or threatened immigrant aid workers.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026
Yulia, who owns a catering company, explains how attempts to censor the internet have affected her business.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
According to Colbert, the network didn’t just want to censor the content — it wanted to censor the censorship itself, informing him that he couldn’t even mention that he’d been prohibited from airing it.
From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026
Rather than risk discipline and uncertain litigation, some faculty simply self censor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026
If there were no event horizon, no cosmic censor that shields the singularity from the rest of the universe, very strange things might happen.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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