The Statute of Anne ended the old system whereby only literature that met the censorship standards administered by the booksellers could appear in print.

First, in 1967, Quebec's ( religious ) censorship bureau was replaced by a film ratings system administered by the province.

Even censorship of radio and the press was administered by the Danish government, rather than by the occupying German civil and military authorities.

However, he became gravely ill during the 1918 flu pandemic and, since Spain was neutral and thus under no wartime censorship restrictions, his illness and subsequent recovery were covered worldwide, giving the false impression ( in the absence of real news from anywhere else ) that Spain was the most-affected area.

Germany's defeat in World War I, the fall of the German monarchy and the abolition of censorship under the new, liberal Weimar Republic allowed an upsurge of radical experimentation in all the arts, previously suppressed by the old regime.

Cosmic censorship hypotheses should be distinguished from chronological censorship under which every closed timelike curve passes through an event horizon, which might prevent an observer from detecting the causal violation.

Fielding eventually ran his own puppet theater under the pseudonym Madame de la Nash to avoid the censorship concomitant with the Theater Licensing Act of 1737.

** The government of Haiti declares a state of siege, under which it suspends civil liberties, imposes censorship, and arrests political opponents.

Artworks were under the same censorship as other media ;

The group rose to public prominence in September 2006, after 17 members ( including 11 soldiers ) were arrested under the December 2003 anti-terrorist laws and laws against racism, anti-semitism and supporters of censorship.

The Cambridge cryptographer Ross Anderson has great concerns that " TC can support remote censorship [...] In general, digital objects created using TC systems remain under the control of their creators, rather than under the control of the person who owns the machine on which they happen to be stored ( as at present ) [...] So someone who writes a paper that a court decides is defamatory can be compelled to censor it — and the software company that wrote the word processor could be ordered to do the deletion if she refuses.

By 1852, it had premiered in all the major cities of Italy, although sometimes under different titles due to the vagaries of censorship ( e. g. as Viscardello, Lionello, and Clara de Perth ).

Again, no censorship is ever allowed, but the right can otherwise be limited by formal law ; explicitly mentioned in sub article 3 is the possibility to limit the viewing of movies by minors under the age of sixteen.

The laws of the time stated that any book under 320 pages had to be submitted to censorship ( the authorities thought long books would cause little trouble as they were unpopular ).

While it initially did not sell well at all ( under 500 copies ) and battled censorship after being deemed amoral, it is now considered one of the greatest American urban novels, and explores the gritty details of human nature, as well as how the process of industrialization affected the American people.

Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China is conducted under a wide variety of laws and administrative regulations.

Kieślowski later said that he abandoned documentary filmmaking due to two experiences: the censorship of Workers ' 71, which caused him to doubt whether truth could be told literally under an authoritarian regime, and an incident during the filming of Station ( 1981 ) in which some of his footage was nearly used as evidence in a criminal case.

Whitman rejected the censorship, writing to Osgood, " The list whole & several is rejected by me, & will not be thought of under any circumstances.

The slasher genre is known for its extreme graphic violence and adult content which has frequently come under fire from censorship advocates, particularly from Christian and Family Friendly groups.

The first major instance of censorship under the Production Code involved the 1934 film Tarzan and His Mate, in which brief nude scenes involving a body double for actress Maureen O ' Sullivan were edited out of the master negative of the film.

Hollywood needed to offer the public something it could not get on television, which itself was under an even more restrictive censorship code.

Lead track " Dogshit " was released as a single in 1988 under the name " Censor " ( due to censorship issues, radio stations urged the band to change its name for radio airplay ), while the single " Testure " ( which denounced the vivisection of animals for research purposes ) reached No. 19 on Billboards Hot Dance Music / Club Play chart in 1989.

Notable editorial cartoons include Benjamin Franklin's " Join, or Die " ( 1754 ), on the need for unity in the American colonies ; " The Thinkers Club " ( 1819 ), a response to the surveillance and censorship of universities in Germany under the Carlsbad Decrees ; and E. H. Shepard's " The Goose-Step " ( 1936 ), on the rearmament of Germany under Hitler.

Straining under French censorship, she wrote to the emperor a provoking and perhaps undignified letter.

Patterson, writing separately, does note the differences between the Licensing Act and the Statute of Anne ; the question of censorship was, by 1710, out of the question, and in that regard the Statute is distinct, not providing for censorship.

* In England, Parliament decides against a renewal of the Licensing Act, putting an end to royal censorship of printing presses and so clearing the way for a free press on the Act's expiry in 1696.

* June 21 – In Britain the Theatrical Licensing Act requires plays to be submitted to the Lord Chamberlain for censorship.

To silence radical agitators and pamphleteers, Parliament passed the Licensing of the Press Act 1662, instituting government censorship of the press.

* June 21-The Theatrical Licensing Act is passed, introducing censorship to the London stage.

Areopagitica did not persuade the Presbyterians in Parliament to invalidate the prepublication censorship component of the Licensing Order of 1643 ; freedom of the press was not achieved until 1695.

Samuel Johnson wrote an attack on the Licensing Act entitled A Complete Vindication of the Licensers of the British Stage that was a parody of the position for censorship.

The Licensing Order of 1643 instituted pre-publication censorship upon Parliamentary England.

The Licensing Order reintroduced almost all of the stringent censorship machinery of the 1637 Star Chamber Decree including:

Finally, in the context of Augustan drama, Carey's play is one of the ones that led to the Licensing Act of 1737, when the theaters would be subject to official censorship.

Using the Emergency-era Internal Security Act ( ISA ), the new government suspended Parliament and political parties, imposed press censorship and placed severe restrictions on political activity.

The restrictions were tightened by the Defence of the Realm Act of August 1914, which, along with the introduction of rationing and the censorship of the press for wartime purposes, restricted pubs ' opening hours to 12 noon – 2: 30 pm and 6: 30 pm – 9: 30 pm Opening for the full licensed hours was compulsory, and closing time was equally firmly enforced by the police ; a landlord might lose his licence for infractions.

His reign saw an extended period of internal peace, although the finances stagnated following failed mercantilist doctrines pursued by the Hat administration ended only in the 1765 – 66 parliament, where the Cap opposition overtook the government and enacted reforms towards greater economic liberalism as well as a Freedom of Press Act almost unique at the time for its curtailing of all censorship, retaining punitive measures only for libeling the monarch or the Lutheran state church.

They are separated into two separate laws mainly to maintain the tradition of the Freedom of the Press Act from 1766, largely the work of proto-Liberal Cap Party politician Anders Chydenius, which abolished censorship and restricted limitations to retroactive legal measures for criticism of the Lutheran state church and the royal house exclusively.

The furore created by the response to video nasties led to the introduction of the Video Recordings Act 1984 which imposed a stricter code of censorship on videos than was required for cinema release.

" but signed the Act without the censorship provisions on June 15, 1917.

Wilson was denied language in the Act authorizing power to the executive branch for press censorship, but Congress did include a provision to block distribution of print materials through the Post Office.

A continuing investigation by the FBI resulted in a second indictment on May 5, this time on charges of violating espionage statutes, the Trading with the Enemy Act, and the censorship statutes, conviction of which carried the death penalty.

On July 28, 1944, a plea bargain was made between the U. S. Attorney's Office and Dickinson in which the espionage and Trade Act indictments were dismissed and she pled guilty to the censorship violation and agreed to furnish information in her possession concerning Japanese intelligence activities.

* May 27 – The English Parliament passes An Act to Restrain Abuses of Players, which tightens the censorship controls on public theatre performances, most notably on the question of profane oaths.

The military regime's main censorship tool, the Fifth Institutional Act, which had given the government dictatorial powers, was renounced by President Geisel in the end of 1978.

* Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act, or OPEN Act, a bill in the United States Congress to prohibit internet censorship.

* Computer-related Crime Act of 2007 ( Thailand ), see Internet censorship in Thailand

The 1937 Irish constitution was amended for the first time to allow the Government to take emergency powers, and then the Emergency Powers Act 1939 was passed that included censorship of the press and mail correspondence.

Roger Ebert in America and Member of Parliament Graham Bright in the U. K. led the charge to censor splatter films on home video with the film critic going after I Spit on Your Grave while the politician sponsored the Video Recordings Act, a system of censorship and certification for home video.

This censorship by licensing requirement was abolished by the Theatres Act 1968.