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Censorship

The use of the principle of moral protection, thereby keeping that which may offend or breach the boundaries of good tastse, for society, and in particular, children, and keeping bad language (swearing) and pornography out of mainstream awareness.
Wow, all this porn on the internet and everywhere, you can’t help but see it and I don’t particularly want to!

Well, say something.

I tried, but the free-speech/anti-censors used Censorship on me.
by Missy M October 8, 2005
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censorsplit

When a moderator on a discussion forum splits off a batch of replies to another thread for purposes primarily related to censoring viewpoints they disagree with by removing them from the larger, ongoing debate and marginalizing their impact.
While the site was owned by well known skeptic educational foundation, staff were apparently instructed to use a 'divide and conquer' strategy in dealing with any dissent. Arguments critical of policy were often split to new threads for being 'off topic,' thus diluting both their continuity and traction. It was a subtle form of censorship one wag dubbed as the 'censorsplit strategy.'
by Recursive Prophet September 13, 2009
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censor muffin

When a Female cannot take, handle, or "go along with" sarcasm, but instead, decides to censor and/or remove the allegedly offensive content.
Michelle was such a censor muffin for removing her tag from the joke we put in our facebook status.
by daytonafun_tim February 27, 2011
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cenk

To inflate the rating of a movie, music release, or book
His rating of the movie totally cenked up the score on Rotten Tomatoes
by aemathisphd June 28, 2010
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Censorship

The reason why anime sucks so bad when it is "translated" for American audiences.
Thank god I have a collection of subtitled anime shows because the dubs of most of the shows are censored to the point where they are sometimes 30 minutes shorter than the original.
by Akira August 28, 2003
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Censorship

1. The product of southern baptist christians trying to get other people to parent their children.
2. The product of minority groups that protest a musician's album that says something bad about their group, while using the 1st amendment as the reason they can protest it.
Censorship? More like censor****!
by Jack Schumacher October 6, 2004
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censorship

Something soccer moms see as shikkerific, but it's a pain in the pompis.
Soccer Mom- Eminem's music is too vulgar. Thank goodness we have censorship!
Shawn B.- You sadistic old hag! *shoots her with Uzi* Who else wants some?! *others back off*
by Shawn B. April 3, 2003
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