preventive censorship

Vietnam enforces preventive censorship, and all media are under party control.

This marked a shift from repressive censorship to that of preventive censorship, carried out in the name of the Republic.

Even while undertaking preventive censorship measures, the National Convention continued to promote plays that aligned with its political and moral creed.

"A court ban amounts to a return of preventive censorship," the editors said in a petition to President Aleksandr Kwasniewski.

The Philippine Orders of 1603, from Philip II's regency, reaffirm the mandatory character civil preventive censorship, as had been established by King Sebastian.

The Holy Inquisition Council's Regulations of March 1, 1570 stated that all local inquisitors no longer had authority over preventive censorship, centralizing their functions on the Inquisitorial Council .

Gradually the ground breaking stage performances became depleted of fresh new topics and captivating lyrics for the songs, and the intervention of preventive censorship in the cabaret's scripted dialogues by Austrian authorities resulted in further avoidance of any pressing political issues stemming from the foreign occupation of the country.

In 1561, the Dominican Francisco Foreiro signed a new Portuguese Index, by order of then-Cardinal Henry I, who wrote as introduction to it a letter in which, while not being as hostile as the one by the Holy See, proclaimed the need for "preventive Censorship".