CENSORSHIP


Meaning of CENSORSHIP in English

noun

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■ ADJECTIVE

political

Any attempt to stifle or fetter such criticism amounts to political censorship of the most insidious and objectionable kind.

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Angry journalists accused the government of censorship of free speech.

Any films that are shown here have to pass government censorship .

Many community leaders have called for censorship of the Internet.

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But this lack of censorship , self or otherwise, should be celebrated for the hard-won battle that it is.

De jure censorship is an unquestioned evil in itself.

It is for this reason that totalitarian governments, and even quasi-totalitarian governments, employ censorship .

Newspapers had been muzzled by wartime censorship .

Partial censorship will become complete censorship.

Smith attended Oxford, where he complained about poor teaching and academic censorship .

The law dominated the field, but it did not operate through the simple mechanisms of censorship and repression.

Yet while some regulations are equivalent to censorship , others are not.

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