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Censorship

By media

Banned books · Banned films Re-edited film · Internet · Music Press · Radio  · Thought Speech and expression Video games

Methods

Book burning · Book challenging Bleeping · Broadcast delay Chilling effect Conspiracy of silence Content-control software Euphemism · Expurgation Financial  · Gag order Heckling · Memory hole Pixelization · Postal Prior restraint · Revisionism Self-censorship · Speech code Whitewashing · Verbal offence Strategic lawsuit

Contexts

Corporate · Political · Religious Ideological · Criminal speech Hate speech · Media bias Suppression of dissent

By country

Censorship · Freedom of speech

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Verbal offence (or 'offence of the word') is a crime that exists in many countries that impose limitations on freedom of speech. It refers to dissent and/or blasphemy. Laws that penalize "verbal offences" are often used as an instrument of government and state oppression.

"Verbal offence" exists in the legal systems of communist states and in sharia law, but also in many European countries.

[edit] See also

• Religious police
• Speech code
• Political correctness

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