Definition of "censorship" []

• The act, process, or practice of censoring. (noun)
• The office or authority of a Roman censor. (noun)
• Psychology Prevention of disturbing or painful thoughts or feelings from reaching consciousness except in a disguised form. (noun)

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• "This is underscored by the third use of “censorship” — that such “self-censorship” _grants legitimacy to censorship_."
• "I like your idea that censorship is intended to enforce one dominant idea and that seems to apply to what some might call ‘positive censorship’, as well as the very wicked kind of censorship from the other side."
• "But the nature of censorship is much broader, and in this case we see censorship from a large entity (that abuses its dominant position) against a small one."