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Naomi Klein

CHAPTER EIGHT: CORPORATE CENSORSHIP

Cultural Censorship
Censorship: the active elimination and suppression of material

Media and retail companies have become very large and with this size comes the power to reengineer the cultural landscape thru their censorship powers

These firms want the merchandise to conform to their “family” model and refuse to carry any material that could threaten their image

These decisions affect not just what is available at the store but what gets produced initially
- Censorship has become embedded in the production process
- “. . . the truly insidious nature of self‑censorship: it does the gag work more efficiently than an army of bullying and meddling media moguls could ever hope to accomplish.”

The private (corporate) decisions have very public effects

Political Censorship