A member of the patrician class, Appius embarked on a program of political reform during his censorship, beginning in 312 bce.
It also helped give rise to a period of liberalization known as the "Khrushchev thaw," during which censorship policy was relaxed, sparking a literary renaissance of sorts.
Many journalists have wilted under censorship; during turbulent times, their muted work reads like dispatches from an alternate reality.
One, "Si Te Dicen Que Caí" ("If They Tell You I Fell"), was published in Mexico because of censorship during Franco's rule.
Before then, imagery of war had been subject to absolute censorship during conflict and diluted for the sake of "taste and decency" by the media during peacetime.
The study documents the activities of firewall censorship during a variety of political events, including anniversaries of events like the Tiananmen Square protests.
The Basilica Porcia (built during Marcus Porcius Cato's censorship of 184), the Basilica Aemilia et Fulvia (179), and the Basilica Sempronia (170 169) were constructed out of the traditional tufa blocks but in a Hellenized style.
Zeynalov responded by tweeting a photo of a penguin, a cheeky reference to press censorship during the Gezi Park protests, when CNN Turk opted to air a documentary about penguins rather than covering events in the streets.
Most vital are early chapters on the subversive and opportunistic origins of newspapers, the absurdities of censorship during the Franco era, and the effort to improvise a free press after the dictator's demise.
That was the last straw for some Spaniards, who said it evoked the nightmare of censorship during the Franco dictatorship little more than a quarter of a century ago.
