n. A society in which censorship is so pervasive that the only way to disseminate information is via photocopied documents and newsletters that have be written clandestinely; rule by whoever feels like doing the photocopying.
1994
The latest group to practice 'Xerocracy' are 153 Iranian writers, poets, filmmakers and dramatists who have just published a letter calling for "a total, immediate and unconditional end to censorship."
1993
CHRIS CARLSSON, Bicyclist: We call it a xerocracy, and anybody who wants to make a point of view or tell a story or get a map out of where they want us to go, is in the same position to just make it and [copy] it, 150 copies, 250, 500."
1988 (earliest)
The Shah's censorship turned Iran into a Xerocracy of underground broadsheets, which set the tone for the press after the revolution that removed the Shah in 1979.
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