{"id":18822,"date":"2025-10-10T18:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/?p=18822"},"modified":"2025-10-10T19:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:02:07","slug":"the-rise-of-autocracy-cultural-censorship-in-autocratic-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/18822\/the-rise-of-autocracy-cultural-censorship-in-autocratic-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise of autocracy: cultural censorship in autocratic systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mymedia.hu.nl\/link\/inleverbox?MOID=2052280373f94c0aa5779e94a57cfd50e4dc05499cba4170a53485ed8060c89a\">https:\/\/mymedia.hu.nl\/link\/inleverbox?MOID=2052280373f94c0aa5779e94a57cfd50e4dc05499cba4170a53485ed8060c89a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Autocratic systems have at least one thing in common: the weaponisination of culture. Autocratic leaders ban and censor dissident opinions and voices through censoring culture. Books, films and art are forbidden and demonised.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent example of this is Vladimir Putin, who just passed a law which bans foreign agent&#8217;s books.<\/p>\n<p>We will hear about this plus an expert&#8217;s point of view in this piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/mymedia.hu.nl\/link\/inleverbox?MOID=2052280373f94c0aa5779e94a57cfd50e4dc05499cba4170a53485ed8060c89a Autocratic systems have at least one thing in common: the weaponisination of culture. Autocratic leaders ban and censor dissident opinions and voices through censoring culture. Books, films and art are forbidden and demonised. The most recent example of this is Vladimir Putin, who just passed a law which bans foreign agent&#8217;s books. 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