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{{trope}}
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''Is trying to burn the playhouse down
''They want to stop the ones who want
''A rock to wind a string around
''But everybody wants a rock
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Art has always been an outlet of dissension. These days, this reputation is most strongly associated with rock music. And where you get dissension, you get people trying to stamp it out. That's where the
The
Can easily be perceived as a [[Take That]] against any art deliberately allowed by the
[[Truth in Television]] as several nations have police who do this. One of them is Saudi Arabia, which has the Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. Among their duties is seizing banned consumer products and media regarded as un-Islamic (such as CDs/DVDs of various Western musical groups, television shows and film). The [[Soviet Union]] regularly purged writers for deviating from [[Socialist Realism]]. In addition, just about every nation on Earth has banned various things, including sexual, religious, cultural, and other stuff.
See [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]] for a similar concept. Compare [[Moral Guardians]] and [[Fan Hater
{{examples|Examples}}▼
== Anime and Manga ==
* The first episode of the ''[[Excel Saga (
* ''[[Library War]]'' is about a future Japan where the government institutes a policy of book burning and culture policing. An intentional loophole built into the law by its less enthusiastic signers allow public libraries to 'confiscate' books and save them from the bonfires, which has led to an elaborate system of ritualized warfare between culture police and the libraries.
* In ''[[
== Comic Books ==
* The Spanish comic ''[[Fanhunter]]'' involves all of Europe being taken over by self-proclaimed Pope Alejo Cuervo, a deranged ex-librarian who believes himself to be channeling the ghost of Phillip K. Dick. After Cuervo bans all forms of subculture, an organization of sci-fi, comic, anime, and other fanboys known as ''[[La Résistance|La Resistencia]]'' organizes to fight Cuervo and his crack teams of "Fanhunters".
* In [[Marvel Comics]]' ''The New Exiles'', Dr. Doom, after taking control of the world, not only bans culture (comedy in particular), but also people's ability to show any strong emotion other than love and adoration toward him and hatred toward Reed Richards.
* The
== Film ==
* Probably the most famous example of the mundane variety is Reverend Moore from the film ''[[Footloose]]''. In fact, they act like pop music is ''banned.'' Like, against the law. Ren (Kevin Bacon's character) is able to work around it by appealing to the town by explaining the historical use of dance to celebrate life.
* The most famous example of the fantastic variety would be the Blue Meanies from ''[[
* Utilized in ''[[Pleasantville]]'' as the presence of two kids from the real world starts making a small town from a sitcom set in an idealized version of [[The Fifties]] more and more real. One particularly [[Anvilicious|non-subtle]] scene visually feature an angry mob breaking into a store and tearing paintings
* The Grammaton Clerics of the film ''[[Equilibrium]]'' were an elite police force tasked with destroying all art and killing anyone who possesses art. This was because the [[
* The surreal Swedish comedy ''Picassos äventyr'' (''The Adventures of Picasso'' in the States) have Prohibition being not about alcohol, but ''art''. Secret galleries work as speakeasies for people who want to see art, and are raided by the police; smugglers bring in paintings and sculpture from Canada, and Picasso gets a job producing, essentially, the art equivalent of moonshine for art-starved Americans...
* In ''[[CSA: Confederate States of America]]'', the Confederacy's morality laws severely stunts the country's cultural growth. According to the movie, Confederate culture never evolved beyond [[Propaganda Machine|state-inspired propaganda]]. Many artists and performers take their talents to [[Canada, Eh?|Canada]], which benifits greatly.
* In ''[[Duck Soup]]'', Groucho Marx, as the newly installed ruler of Freedonia, lays down the law in a jaunty tune:
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''If chewing gum is chewed -- The chewer is pursued -- And in the hoosegow with him!
''If any form of pleasure is exhibited,
''Report to me and it will be prohibited!
''I'll put my foot down
''So shall it be-e-e...
''This is the land of the free!'' }}
== Literature ==
* The [[Older Than Feudalism|classic example]] is [[Plato]]'s ''[[The Republic (
* The world in the book ''[[Fahrenheit 451]]'' has outlawed books, and employs professional book burners called "firemen".
* [[Larry Niven]], Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn wrote a novel revolving around this concept.
** In Larry Niven's short story [
* In the [[Piers Anthony]] short story "Nonent", an alien wants to destroy human ingenuity by destroying science fiction. He decides to send an unsolicited manuscript to all science fiction short story magazines, the second page of which will [[Brown Note|destroy the mind of anyone that sees it]].
* In the [[Orson Scott Card]] short story "Prior Restraint," a group of time travelers calling themselves the "Censorship Board" manipulate history by preventing certain great writers from publishing their work. Note that this board wasn't portrayed as completely
* Perhaps the pinnacle of this trope is ''[[Nineteen Eighty
* [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s ''In the Neolithic Age'' <s>hammers</s> stoneaxes home his view on the question.
* [[
* ''[
* In the [[Stephen King]] short story "[[Children of the Corn]]," the titular children have destroyed a pipe organ and plugged it up with corncobs. On the music stand they have placed a presumably biblical passage regarding the sinfulness of artificially produced music (i.e., by instruments, rather than pure vocals). But then, He Who Walks Behind the Rows has some ''strange'' ideas about sin.
* As detailed in the quote at the top of the page, ''[[
* Society in ''[[The Giver]]'' is strictly regulated under a policy of "Sameness," in which [[Utopia Justifies the Means|life is carefully regulated to eliminate strife and division]]. Music and media have been eliminated. Weather is kept constantly pleasant, only raining at night to water crops while the people sleep. Sex drives, or "stirrings" as they're called in the Community, are suppressed by mandatory drugs (except for the few whose job it is to breed), as are other strong emotions. Even positive emotions like familial love have been carefully eliminated so as to avoid making waves. Animals of all descriptions have been eradicated, at least in the areas where people might actually see them, {{spoiler|and even the ability to see color has been carefully removed from the general population. Everyone is kept in blissful ignorance of the fact that life has ever been any different, with the exception of one individual per Community called "the Receiver of Memory," who is entrusted with the memories of life before Sameness in case a situation arises that requires such knowledge to resolve}}.
* In the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[
* In ''[[Matched]]'' by Ally Condie, there are only 100 of the best artworks of the past allowed to be appreciated, and people are not taught to write or draw.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* The ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' episode "Good Morning, Peoria" had Sam leaping into the body of a DJ during [[The Fifties]] and fighting a movement by the local government to ban rock music.
* An episode of ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' had a town outlaw dancing and music while simultaneously passing a law that forced all children into military service. Xena was conscripted to train the children, and she undermined the changes by teaching the children dance and rhythmic music masked as military drills.
* In the ''[[
* In the ''[[
* The final episode of ''[[Max Headroom]]'' features a battle between the heroes and the Censor Board.
== Music ==
*
* "Le Trente-Huit Cunegonde", on The [[Firesign Theatre]]'s album ''Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him'', details a society in which the hippie counterculture of the '60s became the mainstream. It opens with two police officers accosting a girl because she's not wearing a mini-skirt, and when they discover she doesn't have any drugs on her, they send her in for "re-grooving".
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'''Cop #2:''' Do her a favor, phone her in.
'''Girl:''' I'm telling ya, I ''took'' all the uppers! You wanna hear me rap? "I saw the best minds of my generation..."
'''Cop #1:''' Put her in the car. }}
* The Clash's song "Rock the Casbah" is about a shareef who bans rock.
* The music video for DJ Kentaro's "FREE" is about a world where vinyl is
* The
== Professional Wrestling ==
* [[Professional Wrestling]] example: The [[
== Tabletop Games ==
* The Inquisition and Adeptus Arbites of the Imperium of Man in ''[[Warhammer
** And culture can easily be one of the inroads for Chaos, through the cults of Slaanesh. So they can actually have cause for extreme reactions.
* The Serious Police in the ''Toonpunk 2020 1/2'' setting for ''Toon''. In a game based on wacky [[Looney Tunes]] type stuff, they're [[The Comically Serious]] with assault weaponry.
* The Coalition States in ''[[Rifts]]'' makes ''literacy itself'' a crime. This is the primary reason why the number one person on their Most Wanted List is an outspoken 65-year-old woman who mostly writes books about her travels and freely teaches and encourages others to read.
* ''[[Normality]]'' {{spoiler|can be argued to represent the final total victory of the
* ''Starchildren: The Velvet Generation'' (which could best be described as ''Ziggy Stardust: the RPG'') takes place in a future where an organization colloquially known as "Mad Mother" has ridden the wave of public distrust and stamped out rock music.
▲== Theater ==
* Killer Queen and Globalsoft in ''[[We Will Rock You]],'' the rock musical based on the music of Queen, are bent on eliminating all music and, thus, free thought, on Planet Mall, aka Earth.
** Ironically, Killer Queen sings a song about half way through the play. This is excusable, though, because it's a musical. And who else but a villain could do "Another One Bites The Dust"?
** After the Islamic Revolution of 1979, all western TV, film, and music was banned in Iran. When liberalizing political attitudes in the mid-2000s lead to some western music being authorized for sale in the country, ironically enough, a Queen's greatest hits album was the first disc approved for sale. This was due to "Bohemian Rhapsody" containing the phrase "Bismillah."
== Video Games ==
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* The ''[[Jet Set Radio]]'' games have regular police and later ''trained assassins'' playing this role, trying to suppress a skater counterculture. Pompadoured police chief Onishima employs an oversized revolver loaded with rubber bullets, hordes of riot-shield wielding goons, and even ''tanks'' and ''helicopters'' armed with anti-riot gear to take your character down. All this turns out to be the plan of an evil corporate mogul so he can smother Tokyo in nothing but homogeneous, mediocre mainstream entertainment, as the first part of his plot to conquer the world with dark powers. No, really.
* Semi-obscure first-person adventure ''[[Normality Computer Game|Normality]]'' plays this pretty straight; music is banned, joy is banned, most ''color'' is banned, and people have to turn their TV on (with only crap on air, of course) at all times. Later, you smash walls apart using a guitar.
* The INKT corporation in ''[[
== Web Comics ==
* Several storylines in ''[[Fans]]'' played this trope hilariously straight. Apparently, the only thing standing in the way of would-be world conquerors is science fiction fandom. Ban sci-fi, or go back in time and kill someone big like [[
* The Mayor in ''[[The Word Weary]]'' has a Grand Jury indict Yorick for his performance art.
== Web Original ==
* In the ''[[
* Shows up a lot in ''[[A World of Laughter,
== Western Animation ==
* In an episode of ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', a popular song about Sonic (written more or less [[Theme Tune Cameo|to the show's theme song]]) prompts Dr. Robotnik to attempt to forcibly ban ''all'' music.
** In fact, in [[Sonic the Hedgehog (
*** One of the children's books that were written (ones where Sonic was a bit of a [[Magnificent Bastard]]) bans, among other things, music, books, television, and ''[[Console Wars|Nintendo]]''.
* The cartoon ''[[Madballs]]'' had Commander Wolfbreath and his men, who had banned music, dancing, and other forms of entertainment on their home planet and were trying to capture the protagonists (a rogue rock band that fled to Earth).
* Kyle's mom Sheila on ''[[South Park]]'' is the freakin' CHIEF. In the episode "Death", she convinces the parents of South Park to commit mass suicide in order to get the networks to pull an offensive Terrance and Phillip episode, and in ''[[South Park]] [[The Movie]]'', she ends up starting a war with Canada (and eventually [[The End of the World
* The cartoon ''Oscar's Orchestra'' takes place in a dystopian future, and revolves around a plucky band of anthropomorphic instruments lead by a talking piano (the titular Oscar) and their efforts to fight Thaddeus Vent, the "Emperor of the World" who has banned all music.
* In the ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' episode "Washingtoon", Buster and Babs had to appeal to then-President [[George
* Used in a [[Breather Episode]] of ''[[
** Other views into Fire Nation culture show more approval toward art and self-expression, such as General Iroh and his men playing music on board their ship or having the Gaang infiltrate a Fire Nation festival. This might mean it's mainly in formal institutions like school or military bases that expect such strict behavior, although one constant is that propaganda is everywhere (the festival had children watching a puppet-show with the Fire Lord as the hero).
** Of course, things are also a lot less strict in the Fire Nation "Terrirories" in the Earth Kingdom.
* In [[Sequel Series]] ''[[
* Mocked, like all tropes, on ''[[The Simpsons]]'' with the episode "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge". After Maggie hits Homer on the head with a mallet, Marge creates a Culture Police group to protest the hyperviolent Itchy & Scratchy cartoons that inspired Maggie's attack. She successfully convinces the studio behind the cartoons to clean up their act. Later in the episode, when Michaelangelo's ''David'' is brought to Springfield as part of a coast-to-coast American tour, the group Marge started is appalled to discover that she doesn't want it banned despite the exposed genitals. When grilled about it on a local talk show, Marge is called out on her hypocrisy and is forced to admit that it's wrong to censor one form of art but not others.
== Real Life ==
* This is basically what [[wikipedia:Iconoclasm|Iconoclasm]] is, making this trope [[Older Than Print]]. (Or even [[Older Than Feudalism]]). The [[Byzantine Empire]] was keen on purging
** The
* [[Mao
** Centuries earlier, [[The Book of Lord Shang
** After the Cultural Revolution ended and China began opening itself to the world, they found out that many people were interested in classical Chinese art and culture. The government ignores the fact that many of the remaining artisans were essentially committing "treason" for decades with their hidden knowledge.
* The USSR didn't just try to wipe out religion entirely, they smeared churches with faeces, knocked down most of them down (including some very beautiful cathedrals), instituted a school system that forced atheism and truckloads of anti-religious propaganda on children, banned the teaching of religion and did everything in their power to prevent people going to church. Believers were harassed, many were rounded up, particularly priests. Very many were imprisoned, 'vanished', assassinated, intimidated, locked in mental hospitals, and forcibly converted to atheism. [
** Meanwhile in America, the first [[Red Scare]] was coming to a [
* The Khmer Rouge in [[
* The Taliban banned music in [[
*
* Some Protestant high schools and colleges don't hold dances because the administration considers dancing sinful. Taken a step further, some religious colleges prohibit their students from not only dancing but listening to music at all, as well as drinking, engaging in any physically affectionate behavior, or wearing "gender non-appropriate attire"
** Popular joke among Catholics:
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'''A:''' For fear that it might lead to dancing! }}
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20090518031955/http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92559/suspended-for-dancing One high school suspended a student for dancing...
** There are also some insane regulations governing hair length and style, not a few of which are implicitly
** A few of the stricter Protestant schools in the Netherlands ([[Freestate Amsterdam|there's quite a few actually]]) caught flak a few years back when not relaxing their no-pants-only-dresses-for-girls rules. This was during a particularly cold winter. And many girls came to school by bike.
* During the age of West-Indian chattel slavery, the Africans were purposefully separated from their tribes to try and prevent any sort of unity amongst them. This meant that there would be no one else around with the same culture, leading to erasure of some degree. Of course, this meant that everyone would be speaking a different language, and when added to the already foreign languages of the European planters, very little would be understood.
** African religions were also outlawed by the colonial government. In the case of the Spanish colonies, all slaves had to be converted into Roman Catholics by law, and in the French colonies, this was stressed but not really enforced. English planters did not put a lot of effort into giving their slaves a new religion, and instead kept destroying anything they thought 'heathen'.
*** Shortly before Emancipation, Non-conformist missionaries (Baptists, Methodists, etc.) were often successful in converting the slaves to their denomination. The English planters were more than just annoyed by this, and the preachers were often incarcerated for giving the slaves 'ideas'. The missionaries also helped to educate the slaves, something that was also frowned upon.
* In [[
** Even worse: the female character who had her breast covered is [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|an allegory for the Truth, and the whole painting is the usual background for the government's press conferences]].
* A great number of artworks of Rome, Greece, Egypt, and more were defaced by removing or covering exposed genitals.
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** The previous Korean regime, the Joseon Kingdom, being a Neo-Confucian ideological dictatorship, had done the same thing ''to its own country's culture'', brutally suppressing shamanism and Buddhism and enforcing traditional sex-roles with Taliban-like zeal.
* During [[The American Civil War]], the government released propaganda on ''both'' sides claiming that the other was (insert horrible trait here).
* [[World War
** Although [[Never Live It Down|the world will not let Americans forget]] about the movement temporarily renaming french fries to "freedom fries" and french toast to "freedom toast" during [[The War On Terror]], [[Older Than They Think|it wasn't the first time this happened]]. During [[World War I]], sauerkraut was known as "Liberty cabbage," German measles became known as "Liberty measles", and dachshunds as "Liberty hounds". One name change that stuck in some parts of the country was the change from 'Frankfurter" to "Hot Dog"▼
** A lot of people forget this, but Wilson's behavior, as described above, is actually the reason why [[Warren Harding]] ran on a platform promising a "Return to Normalcy." And true to his word, Harding's "Return to Normalcy" actually ''did'' involve ending Wilson's policy of political imprisonment, and returning the private properties Wilson had seized.▼
▲** Although [[Never Live It Down|the world will not let Americans forget]] about the movement temporarily renaming french fries to "freedom fries" and french toast to "freedom toast" during [[The War
** During the 1918 pandemic at least one American doctor used that very argument to claim that "Spanish Flu" should be renamed "German Flu". It didn't take (not that ''either'' name is appropriate, since the virus was first detected in Kansas).
** And hamburgers were renamed "Salisbury steaks," which now refers to a completely different meat dish.
* Of course, Americans are ''hardly'' the only people to develop
▲* [[World War One]] was the most flagrant example of American [[Culture Police]] at work. [[Woodrow Wilson]] created government branches to specifically monitor the media, and it encouraged citizens to turn in their neighbors if they appeared to be anti-American (or just anti-war). Wilson's media police even had a federal bureau dedicated to monitoring cartoons -- making sure that the political ones all slanted the right way and releasing pamphlets with suggestions of patriotic, anti-German themes artists could work into their cartoons.
**
▲** A lot of people forget this, but Wilson's behavior, as described above, is actually the reason why [[Warren Harding]] ran on a platform promising a "Return to Normalcy." And true to his word, Harding's "Return to Normalcy" actually ''did'' involve ending Wilson's policy of political imprisonment, and returning the private properties Wilson had seized.
▲* Of course, Americans are ''hardly'' the only people to develop [[Culture Police]] of [[Patriotic Fervor]] during wars. [[World War One]], in fact, was rife with Renames of [[Patriotic Fervor]]:
▲** Hilariously, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika,_Ontario Swastika, Ontario] refused to be renamed Winston, because they were Swastika long before the Nazis came along, and retains that name to this day.
** The French renamed many foods that shared a name with [[Useful Notes/The Sound of Martial Music|Austria-Hungary]] or its territories and cities; for example, Café Viennois (Coffee from Vienna, the Austrian capital) became Café Liégeois (Coffee from Liege).
** The Brits pulled their own version of the "Liberty hound" and renamed the German Shepherd into the Alsatian. They also renamed German biscuits into Empire biscuits (also known as Belgian biscuits). Out of all the name changes, the Brits probably trumped ''everyone'' when their own royal family, by decree of George V, ''changed their own surname and house name'' from "Saxe-Coburg" to "[[The House of Windsor|Windsor]]" to remove any relation to Germany.
** In Russia, this happened several times in the 20th century with [[The City Formerly Known As|St. Petersburg]]. During World War I, it was renamed to Petrograd because the original name sounded too "German." Ironically enough, [[Peter the Great]] was originally influenced by Dutch when he came up with the name. The city was renamed to Leningrad after the death of [[Vladimir Lenin]], and then back to St. Petersburg (strictly speaking "Sankt Peterburg") by local referendum shortly before the USSR collapsed.
** Due to the number of German colonists, South Australia had a lot of towns with German sounding names. They all got renamed during WWI. Some got their old names back in [[The Seventies]], but the Klemzig Football Club facilities were built back when the suburb was known as Gaza.
* During [[The French Revolution]], the Committee of Public Safety went so far as to banish all words associated with royalty. A major example of their work was taking Kings and Queens out of playing cards and replacing them with Committee members (they're also an anti-religious form of the
** The actually did [
* Michelangelo's painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Because he depicted naked figures, the artist was accused of immorality and obscenity. A censorship campaign (known as the "Fig-Leaf Campaign") was organized to remove the frescoes. The Pope's Master of Ceremonies said "it was mostly disgraceful that in so sacred a place there should have been depicted all those nude figures, exposing themselves so shamefully, and that it was no work for a papal chapel but rather for the public baths and taverns".
* For years after the founding of the Irish Free State (not the same thing as the [[
* South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson deciding his own dislike of adult video games overrides the near-unanimous express wish of the Australian gaming community to introduce an adult classification to the medium.
* Truth in [[YouTube]]: While [[YouTube]]'s "Community Guidelines" have been accused of deliberately vague and broad extension of the Terms of Service [[YouTube]] could use to remove videos that offended anyone or ''may'' include copyrighted material, a number of (former) YouTubers can tell you their videos have been removed on the most frivolous, anal retentive reasons. And take a look at the wording in this: "Don’t create misleading descriptions, tags, titles or thumbnails in order to increase views. It's not okay to post large amounts of '''untargeted,''' '''unwanted''' or '''repetitive content''', including comments and private messages." Not only can (and sometimes ''will'') your video get removed for using an [[Overly Long Gag]] or not treating the descriptions, tags, etc. as [[Serious Business]], your video can be removed for not being not wanted and not targeting any audience.
** Apparently, you can now only broadcast yourself if you're generating traffic for [[YouTube]].
* English rule of Ireland was rife with this. Apart from measures undertaken to utterly destroy the Irish language (which barely survived), there was the transplantation of colonists from [[Bonnie Scotland|Scotland]] to help "civilize" the island. This is one of the main originating causes of "[[The Troubles]]" in [[Stroke Country|Northern Ireland]].
** Not to mention the measures taken to extinguish the Welsh language, down to [
* A similar thing happened to [[Useful Notes/Native Americans|Native American]] tribes under U.S. rule during the Dawes era: From 1880-1930, the Code of Indian Offenses banned such things as native dances, native religious practices, and plural marriages, and Indian agents were tasked with enforcing these bans on the reservations, imprisoning and/or fining anyone who flouted them.
* During the reign of Austrian emperor Franz (Francis) I, his censors censored one scene in [[Friedrich Schiller]]'s ''Die Räuber'' ("The Robbers"), i.e. the sentence "Franz heißt die Kanaille" (Franz is the name of the scoundrel), because they thought it might refer to the emperor - despite the fact that the play was written long before Franz came to power. The emperor himself commented: "Our censorship is really stupid." (Didn't mean he'd abolish it after that, though.)
* In 2009 the American CDC told media outlets to refer to "Mexican Swine Flu" as "H1N1" instead because according to them, too many people were using it as a snipe against immigrants. this was either a positive move or irrelevant either way.
* [[Dichter Und Denker|German philosopher]] Oswald Spengler claimed in his non-fiction book ''[[
* Monasteries and cathedrals, as well as much of the religious art they contained, were destroyed in England and Scotland during the Reformation as radicals declared religious art "idolatrous" and attempted to sweep-away, with a great deal of success, any traces of Roman Catholicism.
* The USSR State Committee for Cinematography, or [[
* Canadian and Australian authorities are still apologising - and rightly so - for having sent thousands of Aboriginal children to residential schools whose curriculum was essentially to destroy the various First Nations languages and cultures by teaching the students English and converting them to Christianity, "for their own good."
* As [[
* The [
* Romania was doing this actively to the native Hungarians in Transylvania, during the communist administration. When the communists were chased out of Bucharest, they attempted to instigate a civil war and briefly came back to power but they are gradually losing influence. Many of their spiritual successors are currently in government and are continuing with the culture police.
* Censorship departments in several countries of Latin America during their dictatorships were this - Though, to be fair, they mostly censored political content.
* In [
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