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Yes, if you define it to suit your point. But that's not the meaning of the term.

• nebabyte 10y ago
  Censorship is illegal suppression of information. You can tell your kids to shut up, that isn't censoring them. You try and choose a meaning to support your argument just as much as anyone else does. Welcome to terminology.
  • mjburgess 10y ago
    No, it isn't. I have looked at several definitions now and none match yours, indeed explicitly the reverse. I don't know why you keep prattling on when its clear everywhere you look for this defintion it is the reverse. It has nothing to do with an act of government. Government may censor, but so may a private individual: a publisher can censor an author, etc. It is merely the withholding of information on political or moral grounds. "to "censor" is to review something and to choose to remove or hide parts of it that are considered unacceptable. Censorship is the name for the process or idea of keeping things like obscene word or graphic images from an audience. There is also such a thing as self-censorship, which is when you refrain from saying certain things — or possibly re-wording them — depending on who is listening." "to remove anything offensive from books, films, etc., or to remove parts considered unsuitable from private letters, especially ones sent during war or from a prison:" etc. On and on and on in every defintion.