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Recent Examples of censorship
UpScrolled, a rising social media platform, has shot past TikTok in the Apple App Store as TikTok users criticize the app over outages, privacy concerns and questions about censorship.
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Alex Perry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 27 Jan. 2026
But critics argue the law does not distinguish between responsible editorial judgment and censorship.
—Jack O'Connor, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
Iran’s regime responded by surging online, first to throttle the protests and then to construct a sophisticated web of censorship and information control.
—Ilan Berman, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Protests fuel censorship fears The outage overlapped with protests in Minneapolis, where federal authorities deployed thousands of agents in early January.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Jan. 2026
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Alex Perry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 27 Jan. 2026
But critics argue the law does not distinguish between responsible editorial judgment and censorship.
—Jack O'Connor, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
Iran’s regime responded by surging online, first to throttle the protests and then to construct a sophisticated web of censorship and information control.
—Ilan Berman, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Protests fuel censorship fears The outage overlapped with protests in Minneapolis, where federal authorities deployed thousands of agents in early January.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for censorship
suppression
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Cambodian workers who power the country’s export economy remain exposed to unsafe working conditions, poverty wages and systematic union suppression.—
Tharo Khun,
Sourcing Journal,
8 Jan. 2026
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Because the chemistry is non‑flammable and doesn’t undergo thermal runaway, projects can be sited closer to the load with simpler fire suppression, changing the economics of distribution‑level storage.—
Tejasri Gururaj,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Censorship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/censorship. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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