Understanding Censorship and The Methods Used to Implement It From the Chilling Effect to Speech Codes

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. This book is about the methods of censorship used throughout the world. Readers will read about censorship tactics like book burning, broadcast delays, expurgation, and censorship laws such as chilling effects, speech codes, and verbal offences. The book takes these individual tactics and shows how they came about, how they are used, and the impact they have on the spread of information.

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