And in 1934, these studios instituted the Hays Code, an ambitious private censorship regime that kept controversial (read: interesting) material off the silver screen.

Among critics of China's censorship regime, hexie has become a buzzword for opposition to the government's call to create a harmonious society, free from dissent.

The law making the censorship regime mandatory is due to be introduced in 2010 and will not go into effect until one year after passage.

Beyond the DNS provisions, the bill still establishes a censorship regime that threatens speech, innovation, and the future of the American economy.

The heavy censorship regime of the Lord Chamberlain's Office required all comedians to submit their acts for censorship.

The Bishop of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury tighten their enforcement of the existing censorship regime.

In contrast to the confusion most Americans experience, Chinese businessmen would often just laugh when I asked whether the government's censorship regime was hard to navigate.

Certainly, the company's officials figured, it could do better than the local Chinese firms, which acquiesce to the censorship regime with a shrug.

According to the authors, this Axis of Snivel is responsible for a therapized "powerful censorship regime."

In February 2009, then opposition communications spokesman Nick Minchin obtained independent legal advice confirming that a mandatory censorship regime would require new legislation.