self-censorship

Self-censorship is when a film producer, film director, publisher, news anchor or author censors and/or classifies his/her own books or films to avoid offending others, and without authority requiring them to do so. In some authoritarian countries, the fear of government backlash against journalists results in news being censored by the news organizations themselves, usually to avoid reprisal by the authorities. "Self-censorship" is also a possible phenomenon in scientific publications due to some extraenuating ideology or political agenda. For example, It can be motivated by political reasons (the strive to prove the differences between races by anthropometry in the Third Reich, or the refusal of General Relativity as "Jewish science", or more recently matters related to climate changes caused by pollution and to endangered species http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/11/tech/main673232.shtml http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-scientists10feb10,0,4954654.story?coll=la-home-nation), or by scientific "fashions".

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