political censorship

collocation in English

meaningsofpoliticalandcensorship

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political
adjective
uk
/pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/us
/pəˈlɪt̬.ə.kəl/
relating ...
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censorship
noun[U]
uk
/ˈsen.sə.ʃɪp/us
/ˈsen.sɚ.ʃɪp/
the action of preventing part or the whole of a book, film, work of art, document, or other kind of communication from being seen or made available to the public, because it is considered to be offensive or harmful, or because it contains information that someone wishes to keep secret, often for ...
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(Definition ofpoliticalandcensorshipfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpolitical censorship

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Official ideological-coordinating research institutions for the entire country are gone, as ispoliticalcensorship.
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Politicalcensorship, though weakened during these years, continued to exist.
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Given the stalemate, neither view can strictly refute the other, lending practical legitimacy to policies ofpoliticalcensorship.
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Is it right that the transport authorities should exercise apoliticalcensorshipin these matters?
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But to go further than that and to use the other language of really imposing apoliticalcensorshipis very dangerous.
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If so, it was outrageous that academic research should be subjected topoliticalcensorship.
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I hope that nothing in what he has said implies that he would in any circumstances considerpoliticalcensorshipor political direction of any kind.
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Already, imputations ofpoliticalcensorshiphave been made about many plays.
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That is an arguable view, but, whatever censorship it may be, it is a very much smaller and less vicious thing thatpoliticalcensorship.
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We do not wantpoliticalcensorshipof any kind.
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It is monstrous that they should be permitted to carry on this subtle kind of unofficialpoliticalcensorship.
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That was cut out by thepoliticalcensorship.
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There is nopoliticalcensorshipat all, as the articles themselves very clearly show.
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May we take it from that reply that there has been some change in policy since these examples ofpoliticalcensorshipoccurred?
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Even after several re-edits, the series was never transmitted, which was described aspoliticalcensorship.
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A victim ofpoliticalcensorship, he died never knowing how important his work would become to a future generation of scholars.
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Many governments restrict access to digital media in some way, either to prevent obscenity or in a broader form ofpoliticalcensorship.
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Because of thepoliticalcensorship, the record was never released.
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The approach was not endorsed by western countries as it entailed too many hints onpoliticalcensorshipof the internet.
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Part of the need for revisions of the play was clearly due to purely practical concerns of stagecraft, apart from the demands ofpoliticalcensorship.
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