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Salman Rushdie, one of the most censored authors of our time, talked about the importance of books.†

censored = removed or suppressed something considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable
These censors are at work in all areas of our daily lives.†

censors = removes or suppress anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable OR people who does such suppression
Censorship has affected me directly, and I have formed some ideas on this insidious activity, but fist, I want to give an example of censorship which recently affected a friend of mine.†

censorship = the act of removing or suppressing anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable
Censorship has affected me directly, and I have formed some ideas on this insidious activity, but fist, I want to give an example of censorship which recently affected a friend of mine.†
It has implications that we may call self-imposed censorship.†
My friend was censoring his creativity in order to fit the imposed criteria.†
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censoring = removing or suppressing something considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable
We struggled to change the way the world looks at Mexican Americans by reflecting our reality in literature, and many eagerly sought our works, but the iron curtain of censorship was still there.†

censorship = the act of removing or suppressing anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable
Where does censorship begin?†
What are the methods of commission or omission that censorship employs?†
Many of my generation still recall and recount the incidents of censorship on the playgrounds of the schools when we were told to speak only English.†
Cultural censorship has been with us for a long time, and my friend's story suggests it is with us today.†
The views of ethnic writers, gay and lesbian writers, and women writers had been consistently censored out of the literary canon.†

censored = removed or suppressed something considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable
Censorship is fear clothed in the guise of misguided righteousness.†

censorship = the act of removing or suppressing anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable
Censorship is a tool of the powerful who don't want to share their power.†
It uses censorship as a tool.†
As I have suggested, in some cases, it is a thinly veiled censorship.†
Like my friend applying for the fellowship, I was censored before I got to first base.†

censored = removed or suppressed something considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable
In other cases, the censoring has been direct and brutal.†

censoring = removing or suppressing something considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable
Using a technique censors often use, they zoomed in on one detail of the novel, the so-called bad words in Spanish, and they used that excuse.†

censors = removes or suppress anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable OR people who does such suppression
Why did the censors burn Bless Me, Ultima?†
The 1990 attack on the NEA by fundamentalist censors has created a national furor and discussion.†
But as Chicanos who belong to a culture still existing on themargin of the mainstream society, and as a community that has struggled to be heard in this country, censorship is not new to us.†

censorship = the act of removing or suppressing anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable
That is what the censors who burned Bless Ale, Ultima were telling me.†

censors = removes or suppress anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable OR people who does such suppression
The English-Only movement continued the old censorship we had felt on the school playgrounds, but now the game had moved into the state legislatures.†

censorship = the act of removing or suppressing anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable
We are supposed to have no culture, and so they assign themselves the right to censor.†

censor = remove or suppress anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable OR a person who does such suppression
This type of censorship was focused against the National Endowment for the Arts in the halls of Congress in 1990.†

censorship = the act of removing or suppressing anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable
The censors of the far right attacked two or three funded projects because they objected to the content of the works.†

censors = removes or suppress anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable OR people who does such suppression
The censors assumed the right to keep these creative works away from all of us.†
Censors, I have concluded, are afraid of our liberation.†
Censorship is un-American, but the censor keeps telling you it's the American way.†

censorship = the act of removing or suppressing anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable
Censorship is un-American, but the censor keeps telling you it's the American way.†

censor = remove or suppress anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable OR a person who does such suppression
Multiculturalism is a reality in this country, and we will get beyond fear and censorship only when we know more about each other, not when we know less.†

censorship = the act of removing or suppressing anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable
Censorship imposes itself in my path of knowledge, and that activity can be justified by no one.†

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(1) (censor as related to censorship)
to remove or suppress anything considered obscene, immoral, politically unacceptable, or a security threat

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a person who decides which such material should be removed or suppressed
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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