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censorship

[sen-ser-ship] / ˈsɛn sərˌʃɪp /


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A: Beijing has implemented some censorship of the data that companies use to train models and of the output of those models.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

The legal term for indirect censorship that stems from, for example, threatening a broadcast license is “jawboning,” and on this point, the law is more clear.

From Salon Jul. 10, 2026

The censorship machinery kicked in so quickly and thoroughly this time possibly because Beijing's leadership is "still not exactly sure what happened", says Manya Koetse, who runs the Eye on Digital China newsletter.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

Ekaterina Mizulina, the head of Russia's state-sponsored internet censorship watchdog, said in December she had received "63,000 emails" from disgruntled schoolchildren and parents commenting on the ban.

From Barron's Jun. 11, 2026

Like the cosmic censorship conjecture, it has not been proved but there are reasons to believe it is true.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking




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