Censor -noun

cen·sor

–noun

1. an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
2. any person who supervises the manners or morality of others.
3. an adverse critic; faultfinder.
4. (in the ancient Roman republic) either of two officials who kept the register or census of the citizens, awarded public contracts, and supervised manners and morals.
5. (in early Freudian dream theory) the force that represses ideas, impulses, and feelings, and prevents them from entering consciousness in their original, undisguised forms.
–verb (used with object)
6. to examine and act upon as a censor.
7. to delete (a word or passage of text) in one's capacity as a censor.

Emphases mine.

censor

verb

1. To examine (material) and remove parts considered harmful or improper for publication or transmission: bowdlerize, expurgate, screen. See include/exclude, show/hide.
2. To keep from being published or transmitted: ban, black out, hush (up), stifle, suppress. Idioms: keep/put a lid on. See show/hide.



This is fun. So, what's the context for this post?

and "censure".

Why fu*#*ing censor yourself?

Obscenity downgrades site rank in search engines.
Search engines do not read this = fu*#*ing + as obscenity!

Most search engine users have absolute zero chance of seeing a page if they search for a topic
and a page on the topic has an obscenity, because the default settings screen obscenity.
This is simply a fact those using obscenity on DU should be aware of, that is all.

Say what you wish, but do it knowing what the consequences of your actions are.

;-)

This is the crux of an argument I've had many times with people who believe that the only definition that applies is the one mentioning official.

I held and still hold the opinion that of course it is equally objectionable for individual citizens to, through pressure or coercion, silence voices they don't like.

Of course many disagree with me.

Bryant
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