Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

censorship

Dutch translation:

censuur; persbreidel

Added to glossary by Andrea Capuselli
Mar 3, 2022 16:36
2 yrs ago
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English term

censorship

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context (not mine, but very close):

"Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient". Censorship can be conducted by governments, private institutions and other controlling bodies."

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship )


Proposed translations (Dutch)
4 +2 censuur
Change log

Mar 8, 2022 10:00: Michael Beijer changed "Field (write-in)" from "censorship" to "https://www.proz.com/forum/site_forums/356005-i_recommend_subscribing_to_forum_threads_to_keep_a_record_of_posts_that_might_otherwise_disappear-page3.html"

Mar 8, 2022 10:00: Michael Beijer changed "Field (write-in)" from "https://www.proz.com/forum/site_forums/356005-i_recommend_subscribing_to_forum_threads_to_keep_a_record_of_posts_that_might_otherwise_disappear-page3.html" to "censorship"

Mar 8, 2022 18:35: Andrea Capuselli changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/652138">Michael Beijer's</a> old entry - "(say no to) censorship"" to ""censuur; persbreidel""

Discussion

Gerard de Noord Mar 10, 2022:
Zo de wind waait, waait mijn jasje Mijn bijdragen hier zien gebreideld. Naar het schijnt mag je met ingang van heden in het Engels wel een eend een eend noemen.
Barend van Zadelhoff Mar 4, 2022:
Censuur kan worden gebruikt als ondersteuning van de feiten en als ondermijning van de feiten.
Dat maakt de boel een stuk complexer.

Censuur kan enerzijds gebruikt worden om te voorkomen dat de macht van een bepaalde instantie wordt ondermijnd, maar anderzijds ook met het idee de burger te beschermen.

Dit laatste argument is in de geschiedenis vaak door overheden misbruikt als rookgordijn voor het eerste.

Een bekende uitspraak van Thomas Jefferson, de derde president van de VS, is:

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."

Maar de leugen is sneller.
Michael Beijer (asker) Mar 4, 2022:
Streisand effect (Wikipedia) "The Streisand effect is a phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of increasing awareness of that information, often via the Internet. It is named after American singer Barbra Streisand, whose attempt to suppress the California Coastal Records Project’s photograph of her residence in Malibu, California, taken to document California coastal erosion, inadvertently drew greater attention to the photograph in 2003.

Attempts to suppress information are often made through cease-and-desist letters, but instead of being suppressed, the information receives extensive publicity, as well as media extensions such as videos and spoof songs, which can be mirrored on the Internet or distributed on file-sharing networks.

The Streisand effect is an example of psychological reactance, wherein once people are aware that some information is being kept from them, they are significantly more motivated to access and spread that information.

In some cases, seeking or obtaining an injunction to prohibit something from being published leads to increased publicity."

Proposed translations

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Selected

censuur

"Toezicht van een overheid of kerk op voor publicatie bestemde teksten, films, voorstellingen enz., met de mogelijkheid om die te verbieden of er delen uit te schrappen" (Van Dale)
Peer comment(s):

agree Ron Willems
29 mins
Dank je Ron!
agree philgoddard : I think "inconvenient" is the appropriate adjective here.
2 hrs
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Comment: "Thanks everyone!"
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