Meaning Censorship
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The act of implementing a policy or program designed to suppress, either in whole or in part, the production of or access to information, sources, literature, the performing arts, letters, documents o [..]
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The practice of suppressing a text or part of a text that is considered objectionable according to certain standards.
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1590s, "office of a censor," from censor (n.) + -ship. Meaning "action of censoring" is from 1824.
Source: etymonline.com

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The official prohibition of information thought to be offensive or dangerous.
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The act of hiding, removing, altering or destroying copies of art or writing so that general public access to it is partially or completely limited. Contrast with bowdlerization. Click here to downloa [..]
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Issues frequently arise online about censorship. When does a service provider or a mail discussion list host or a message base host have a right to delete material others have posted? When posts are c [..]
Source: walthowe.com

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censoring: counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy censoring: deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances (censor) ban [..]
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Censorship refers to government control or restrictions placed on the media or publishing. Censorship was a feature of total war during World War I. It was used by all major combatants in the war, eit [..]
Source: alphahistory.com

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Examination of books, news reports, films, plays and other material for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed to be objectionable on moral, political or other grounds. At the outbreak of World War I [..]
Source: syllabus.bostes.nsw.edu.au

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The action of suppressing in whole or in part something that is considered politically or morally objectionable. Letters written by Japanese Canadians were opened, read and in many cases pieces were b [..]
Source: japanesecanadianhistory.net

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the process of determining what can or can not be viewed by the public or depicted by the motion picture industry; also refers to changes required of a movie by some person or body (other than the stu [..]
Source: filmsite.org

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Prohibition of the production, distribution, circulation, or display of a work by a governing authority on grounds that it contains objectionable or dangerous material. The person who decides what is [..]
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the institution, system, or practice of censoring compare freedom of speech, prior restraint
Source: dictionary.findlaw.com

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The practice of examining certain works with the aim of assessing their suitability and appropriateness for certain groups of people (often children or teenagers) and with making changes deemed necess [..]
Source: screenonline.org.uk

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Government control over what can or cannot be published. This could be used against texts which promoted political reform.
Source: historyofparliamentonline.org

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Censorship generally is the deletion of speech or any communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the government or media organizations as dete [..]
Source: definitions.uslegal.com

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the belief that other people would do something foolish if they knew the truth. The problem with censorship is ×× ×××'× ××× ××× ×××× ×× × ×××. Censorship The attempt to silence a man is the great [..]
Source: mindprod.com

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(n) counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy(n) deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances
Source: beedictionary.com

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Censorship is related to propaganda, but differs in that it is the treatment of existing information or art to make it acceptable to the ideology of the authorities manipulating it. In other words, cr [..]
Source: theoryofknowledge.net

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 Editing or banning media texts for political, social or moral reasons.
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