Censorship
* can also be a risk taken by artists who become associated with churches.
* can take many forms and affect many mediums
* causes blindness
  - ones' worldview, including ones' sense of self, to fragment
* computation that warps the worldview like a flaw in fabric.
* concept that attaches to public organizations.
* does exist in many countries.
* exists all through the world.
* form of social control that has many unintended consequences or ironic results
* global issue concerning the Internet.
* has to do with making laws.
* highly contagious disease.
* involves prior restraint by the government of production or distribution of materials.
* is about preventing an idea from being presented.
* is an act of government that, by definition, precludes free choice
  - effort to prevent information from reaching the public
  - infectious disease
  - censorship, even if it sneaks in through the backdoor
  - counterintelligence
  - criticism as a monopoly of the government
  - designed to promote the truth and filter out lies
  - government suppression of individual speech and it comes in many forms
  - imposed against all medias, from newspapers to one's own speech
  - informational violence
  - intrinsic to any human organization
  - one of the most contentious issues in the regulation of cyberspace
  - practiced by other forces besides governments
  - repression
  - slavery
  - still the first step to information and mind control
* is the banning of material to stop it being available to the public
  - handmaiden of a police state
  - height of vanity
  - right to be protected from obnoxious information
  - used by governments in war for military purposes
  - what some people decide is good for others without their consent
* is when someone is forbidden by law to say or express something
  - the government limits a person's ability to speak
* maintains societal imbalances of power by restricting access to information.
* means that the government restrains speech.
* natural side effect of free speech.
* normal part of using the Internet.
* occurs in many different forms
  - when the government is involved
* prison to expression.
* red thread, sometimes a blood-red thread, through European history.
* takes the form of direct violence, legal measures, imprisonment and economic harassment.
* tool of the print culture and nation states.
* topic that everyone seems to have an opinion on.
* touchy subject in the arts and entertainment world.
* undermines all forms of entertainment.
  * Now you clearly stated right of the bat that you were annoyed with people talking about censorship, but we'll move on from that contradiction. Censorship removes information, it does not add it. Censorship is bad and against policy. It is not fine.
  * hides facts.' - Official policy, by the way.
  * But the way he framed his argument it wasn't going anywhere. That and this discussion's tone is rather nasty. I don't mind a medical cut out explaining anatomy of the body. But the photos that look self made of someone playing with their johnson can easily be excluded. Censorship exists in wikipedia. CM16 proposed removing a few videos as unaccaptable to benefit the project in general by increasing the audiance.
* word of many meanings.