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Overt censorship: a fatal mistake?

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Censorship of information often has the opposite effect by drawing attention to the censored material.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 56, Issue 8
August 2013
85 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/2492007
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Published: 01 August 2013
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