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Censorship during the 2026 Iran war
Censorship during the 2026 Iran war: Iran's 88-day near-total internet blackout after the 28 February 2026 US-Israeli strikes, tiered whitelisted access, Starlink criminalization, journalist arrests, and parallel censorship by Israel, Gulf states, and the US.
Censorship in India
Censorship in India: official restriction of expression across print, film, and online media. Covers Article 19(2) restrictions, Emergency pre-censorship 1975-77, IT Rules 2021, Section 69A blocking, internet shutdowns, and RSF press freedom rankings.
Censorship in Japan
Censorship in Japan (言論統制): constitutional Article 21 bans censorship, yet prewar Home Ministry censorship, GHQ occupation Press Code, and modern self-censorship, kisha clubs, and the 2014 state secrets law shape Japanese media, ranked 62nd by RSF in 2026.
Censorship in North Korea
Censorship in North Korea (DPRK): total state control of all media, criminalized foreign content with penalties up to death and 10 years' labor, a state intranet, and 2023 radio-wave law expansions.
Censorship in the Republic of Ireland
Censorship in the Republic of Ireland is the state restriction of published material, enforced by the Censorship of Publications Board from 1930, which banned over 12,000 publications.
Censorship in the Soviet Union
Censorship in the Soviet Union, also called censorship in the USSR: the state and party system of pre-publication review centered on Glavlit, created in 1922 under Narkompros, covering all print, film, and broadcast media until dissolution by presidential decree in 1991.
Censorship in the United Kingdom
Censorship in the United Kingdom (UK censorship, Censorship in Britain): state, court and regulator control of published, broadcast and online content, from the Lord Chamberlain's stage censorship to the Obscene Publications Act 1959, BBFC classification, and the Online Safety Act 2023.
Censorship in the United States
Censorship in the United States: suppression of speech or information by government or institutions. Shaped by the First Amendment, obscenity law, prior-restraint doctrine, Comstock-era mail bans, and a post-2021 record wave of school book bans led by Texas and Florida.
Censorship of Facebook
Censorship of Facebook covers Meta's own content moderation, government blocks and court orders, and disputes over political bias, from the 2016 fact-checking program to the January 2025 shift to Community Notes.
Censorship of images in the Soviet Union
Censorship of images in the Soviet Union: state alteration of photographs and art under Glavlit (est. 1922), chiefly under Stalin, erasing purged figures like Trotsky and Yezhov via airbrushing, scalpel, and ink; documented in David King's 1997 The Commissar Vanishes; ended by the 1990 press law.
Censorship of Roblox
Censorship of Roblox: government bans of the Roblox gaming platform (Türkiye, Russia, Egypt, Gulf states, Indonesia rules) and Roblox's own chat filters, facial age checks, and age-based accounts.
Censorship of TikTok
Censorship of TikTok covers government bans (India 2020, US divest-or-ban law upheld by the Supreme Court in January 2025), device bans, and platform-level moderation and alleged political censorship by ByteDance, which also operates the separately censored Chinese app Douyin.
Censorship of Twitter
Censorship of Twitter (X): government takedown demands under the Country Withheld Content policy, shadowbanning, compliance rates rising from 50% to 80% after Musk's 2022 takeover, and cases in India, Turkey, Brazil, and Nigeria.
Censorship of YouTube
Censorship of YouTube covers content removal, restriction, and demonetization on the platform, through its three-strikes Community Guidelines system, AI-plus-human review, government legal removals, and state blocking such as Russia's throttling.
Censure
Censure is a formal public condemnation issued by a legislative body against one of its members; it falls one step below expulsion and above a reprimand in severity.
Censure in the United States
Censure in the United States is a formal congressional disapproval resolution, grounded in Article I, Section 5, adopted by majority vote; unlike expulsion it does not remove office, and it has also targeted presidents such as Andrew Jackson.
Census
Census: the official periodic count of a country's population and housing, defined by individual enumeration, universality, simultaneity, and periodicity. Covers ancient origins, traditional, register-based, and combined methods, uses, coverage error, and privacy protection such as differential privacy.
Census in Australia
The Census in Australia, formally the Census of Population and Housing, is a compulsory five-yearly count of every person and household run by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Census in British India
Census in British India: the decennial colonial population counts from the non-synchronous 1872 census through the first synchronous 1881 census to the last in 1941, centered on religion and caste enumeration, Risley's anthropometry, and the Gait Circular.
Census of India (भारत की जनगणना)
Census of India (भारत की जनगणना), the decennial national population count run by the Registrar General under the Home Ministry since 1881 (first attempt 1872); Census 2027 is the first digital census with caste enumeration, after the 2021 round was postponed by COVID-19.
Census of Quirinius
The census of Quirinius, a 6 CE Roman taxation enrollment of Judaea under the Syrian governor P. Sulpicius Quirinius, known from Josephus and from the disputed birth-census of Luke 2:1-2.
Cent (currency)
A cent is a monetary subunit worth one hundredth of a base currency unit, used in the US dollar, the euro, and many other decimal currencies.
Centana Growth Partners
Centana Growth Partners is a New York growth-equity venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Eric Byunn, Ben Cukier, and Steven Swain, focused on fintech and financial services.
Centaur
Centaur (Greek Kentauros): half-man, half-horse creature of Greek mythology, human torso joined at the waist to a horse's body; dwelt in Thessaly, descended from Ixion, famed for the Centauromachy and the wise Chiron, distinct from the satyr.
Centec Networks
Centec Networks, formally Suzhou Centec Communications, is a Chinese fabless Ethernet switch-chip designer founded in Suzhou in 2005, ranked fourth globally in merchant switch silicon and first in China.
Centenarian
Centenarian: a person aged 100 or older; supercentenarian at 110+. Verified record Jeanne Calment, 122; UN estimated 451,000 centenarians in 2015; survival past 100 halves yearly; no proven lifespan cap.
Centene Corporation
Centene Corporation is a St. Louis-based Fortune 500 managed care company that serves 27.6 million members across all 50 states, the largest US Medicaid insurer and Marketplace carrier.
Centennial College (Canada)
Centennial College (The Centennial College of Applied Arts and Technology) is a public Toronto college founded in 1966 as Ontario's first community college, serving the eastern GTA from five campuses, with about 200 full-time programs and 54 programs suspended in 2025.
Centennial High School (Compton, California)
Centennial High School (Compton, California), home of the Apaches, is a public Title I high school founded in 1954 in Compton Unified School District; a $270-million replacement campus broke ground in 2026 for an August 2029 opening.
Centennial Olympic Park bombing
The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was Eric Rudolph's July 27, 1996 pipe bomb attack at the Atlanta Olympics, killing Alice Hawthorne and injuring 111; Richard Jewell was wrongly suspected before Rudolph's 2003 capture and 2005 life sentences.