censorship

[ sen-ser-ship ]

/ ˈsɛn sərˌʃɪp /

the act or practice of censoring.

the office or power of a censor.

the time during which a censor holds office.

the inhibiting and distorting activity of the Freudian censor.

Origin of censorship

First recorded in 1585–95; censor + -ship

an·ti·cen·sor·ship, adjective pre·cen·sor·ship, noun pro·cen·sor·ship, adjective self-cen·sor·ship, noun

The CDA was passed not in the name of censorship but in the name of protecting children from stumbling across sexual material.

How the PC Police Threaten Free Speech |Nick Gillespie |January 9, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
Jordan also banned it, and Malaysia, Egypt, and Indonesia subjected it to their censorship boards.

When Countries Lose Their Shit Over American Movies |Asawin Suebsaeng |December 17, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
To many of us, that smacks of censorship, the highest offense to our pride in self-publicity.

On Torture, Chuck Johnson & Sondheim |James Poulos |December 13, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
So this startling move towards Internet censorship should come as no surprise.

The UK’s War on Porn: ‘Proof That Men Making These Rules Do Not See Women as Equals’ |Aurora Snow |December 6, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

Ironically, Trotter had succeeded in tightening a censorship bill but failed to stop the movie.

The Fight to Ban ‘Birth of a Nation’ |Jack Schwartz |November 20, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
And here ends our melancholy tale, which the censorship of the press in Russia prevented from ever before being publicly related.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. |Various
Thus far it seemed, on such news as the censorship permitted to come through, that Maritz stood alone.

The Annual Register 1914 |Anonymous
It represented the breaking forth of the unconscious into expression, controlled by a censorship on the part of the poet.

The Literature of Ecstasy |Albert Mordell
The audiencia had general authority over the inspection and censorship of books which were printed in the colony or imported.

The Audiencia in the Spanish Colonies |Charles Henry Cunningham
By devious ways it had broken through the censorship of the frontier in cunning cipher.

The Last Shot |Frederick Palmer

censorship

/ (ˈsɛnsəˌʃɪp) /

a policy or programme of censoring

the act or system of censoring

psychoanal the activity of the mind in regulating impulses, etc, from the unconscious so that they are modified before reaching the conscious mind