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censorship

practice of suppressing speech or other public communication which is illegal or against social norms
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Summary

censorship ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,339 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: media regulation[2], social issue[3], job activity[4]
  • Part of: history of literature[5], ban[6]
  • Commons category: Censorship[7]
  • Said to be the same as: 検校 (中国)[8]
  • Opposite of: freedom of speech[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Censorship[10]
  • Facet of: Universal Declaration of Human Rights[11]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], New International Encyclopedia[14]
  • Topic has template: Template:Censorship[15], Template:Censorship and websites[16]
  • Equivalent class: https://op.europa.eu/web/eu-vocabularies/concept/-/resource?uri=http://data.europa.eu/bkc/005.07.01.0050[17], http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/pwn30/00397347-n[18]
  • Different from: restrictions to free speech[19], Zensur[20], Censuur[21], Cenzura[22], gatekeeping[23]
  • ACM Classification Code (2012): 10003480[24]
  • History of topic: Geschichte der Zensur[25]
  • Practiced by: censor[26]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Human rights[27], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[28]

Why It Matters

censorship has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] censorship is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Related Entities

Bohemian Rhapsody Civil Censorship Department history of literature Nicholas John Hopper Revista Brasiliense TikTok

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'ba', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn', 'bs', 'ca',
    Sitelink count → 115
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||lb, szl */ import labels from sitelinks; cleanup"
  2. 5w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Fandom article id → lgbt:Censorship, lgbtqia:Censorship
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Fandom article id: lgbtqia:Censorship, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/314287717|Censorship (#314287717)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8351|LGBTQIA+ W"
  3. 18w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → censorship
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: censorship, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289918146|censorship (#289918146)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  4. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002890-cenzura
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0002890-cenzura, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → WikiProject Human rights, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Subclass of → media regulation, social issue, job activity
    Part of → history of literature, ban
    Practiced by → censor
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ Yso id: 7005, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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