This document discusses different types and methods of censorship across various mediums such as television, publications, and the internet. It outlines the government bodies and laws that regulate content in countries like the UK, US, and Mexico. Content deemed obscene, indecent, or harmful to minors is subject to censorship through restrictions, filters, or removal. Censorship aims to control what the public can access or communicate depending on factors like age-appropriateness or legal issues.

1. CENSORSHIP

2. TYPES OF CENSORSHIP
• Moral
• Military
• Political
• Religious
• Corporate

3. • A bleep censor (or "bleeping") is the replacement
of profanity or classified information with a beep
sound
• A bleep is sometimes accompanied by a digital
blur or box over the speaker's mouth in cases where
the removed speech may still be easily understood
by lip-reading.

4. TELEVISION
In the United Kingdom, the Office of Communications
(Ofcom) is in charge of regulating all of the private
commercial channels, including iTV, Five and Channel
4.
• “Material that might seriously impair the
physical, mental or moral development of
people under eighteen must not be
broadcast”

5. • Ofcom launched on 29 December 2003, formally
inheriting the duties that had previously been the
responsibility of five different regulators:
• the Broadcasting Standards Commission,
• the Independent Television Commission,
• the Office of Telecommunications (Oftel),
• the Radio Authority, and
• the Radiocommunications Agency.
• Postal Services Commission (2011)

6. OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS ACTS
• Since 1857, a series of obscenity laws known as the
Obscene Publications Acts have governed what
can be published in England and Wales. The classic
definition of criminal obscenity is if it "tends to
deprave and corrupt," stated in 1868 by John Duke
Coleridge

7. • The Communications Act 2003 (c 21) is an Act of
the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It gave
Ofcom its full powers. It also made it illegal to use
other people's wifi broadband connections without
their permission.

8. INTERNET WATCH FOUNDATION
• It’s a non-governmental charitable body based in
the United Kingdom. It states that it’s remit is "to
minimise the availability of 'potentially
criminal' Internet content, specifically images
of child sexual
abuse hosted anywhere, and criminally
obscene adult content in the UK”
• 98% of commercial Internet customers in the UK are
filtered.

9. INTERNET
• The majority of Schools, Colleges and Universities
use internet filters to block access to sites which
contain Adult material, Gambling and site which
contain malware. YouTube, Facebook and Twitter a
re often filtered by certain schools.

10. INTERNET
UK code of practice for the self-regulation of new forms of
content on mobiles
• Adult / sexually explicit
• Chat
• Criminal skills
• Drugs, alcohol and tobacco
• Gambling
• Hacking
• Hate
• Personal and dating
• Violence
• Weapons

11. TELEVISION
• In the United States, censorship and other
broadcasting policy-related issues are handled by
the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
• “It is a violation of federal law to
air obscene programming at any time. It is
also a violation of federal law to
air indecent programming
or profane language during certain hours”
which includes any content between 6am
and 10pm.

12. INTERNET
• States that require Internet filtering in schools and/or
libraries to protect minors
include: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Michig
an, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South
Dakota, Utah, and Virginia.
• Amy Hestir Student Protection Act which included a
provision that barred K-12 teachers from using
websites that allow "exclusive access" in
communications with current students or former
students who are 18 or younger, such as occurs with
private messages on sites such as Facebook.

13. INTERNET
• Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA)
• Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
• Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)
K-12 schools must have internet protection (CIPA)
The expression K-12 is a shortening of Kindergarten (K) for 4–
6-year-olds through twelfth grade (12) for 16–19-year-
olds, the first and last grades of free education in these
countries.

14. MEXICAN LAW OF RADIO AND
TELEVISION.
• This law was adopted on January 8, 1960
• It has a Regulation which censor films, tv
programms or radio stations that are not “morally
acceptable”
• This law does not regulate satellite
broadcasting, and the signals on cable,or the use
of new technologies such as coded television.

15. NEWSPAPER
• Self-censorship because of the crime
• Magazines with sexual content must be covered