censorship

Legal vandalization of art.

"The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion." --Henry Steele

by Killing Kittens June 23, 2004

Urban Censorship

(n) a suppression of certain types of definitions without explanation on a supposedly free Internet forum

Sometimes new definitions submitted to this website become ghost posts; this is a form of Urban Censorship. One tends to wonder why a short and simple definition for one-termer was confirmed but never posted while a huge definition for Operation Iraqi Freedom that rambles on an on for several pages is allowed to remain.

by fduck January 12, 2004

censorship

1. stopping the free flow of art and ideas.

For those of us in the US we do NOT enjoy the right to free speech (even though it is in the constitution). The supreme court ruled in the Miller case that "obscene" materials are not protected under the 1st amendment and can be banned or regulated; translation: regulated censorship is constitutional thanks to a few activist judges who wanted the government to impose its morality on us. Basically if the subject or content is sexual in any way then whether its obscene or not is up for majority vote; they actually said if the average person would be offended by it and think that it had no artistic value (if you weren't offended by it or thought it was a work of art why would you want to ban it in the first place). This is why it is illegal to give porn to minors, because it shows sex even though this should be decided and enforced by the parents the government is getting involved. Also there's no law against showing violent material to minors, so basically its worse to expose them to consensual sex than murder.

by Trinu January 1, 2007

Censor dodge

Making a word that is censored, (typically swears) un censored by changing a small detail.

Fück you all, bítches.

Censor dodged

by HOWYATOMMY September 26, 2014

censorbot

The automated profanity removal feature on message boards like Yahoo that turns "FUCK" into "@#&%".

I applaud the use of the term phucktards. It escapes the censorbot while being perfectly descriptive.

by Humblewizard December 27, 2007

censorship

censorship is @#%!#

I'm sure urbandictionary doesn't support censorship, that would be #!@$%...

by cxnnor May 17, 2009

censorship

1.the worst thing ever invented
2.blocking out "bad words" although the show might me MA anyway and shown at like 11

1. dude, i was watching music videos and they took like 20 words out
2. south park (classic example of over censorship)

by dude-im-cool-43 July 9, 2010