What is censorship????

Question

please keep it simple, i need a good simple definition of censorship for my book report, by the way the book is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

Answer 1

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Censorship is when the government controls or limits what the media can portray to the public.

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Answer 2

it is when your kept from showing or sayinjg something that is your opinion

Answer 3

censorship is when something inappropriate is blocked, beeped, or blurred out

Answer 4

A way for other people to tell you what they think is right for you to be able to see, or do. In other words, BS

Answer 5

Censorship is the suppression or deletion of material which may be considered objectionable, harmful or sensitive, as determined by a censor.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship

Answer 6

yahoo answers :)

Answer 7

Are you serious?
sighhhh

Its when the government censors something like
If i type the b word on here it will censor it out thats censor ship

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Answer 8

its when ur not allowed to say somnething or show something. for example when they bleep out the bad words on tv

Answer 9

Getting your respectful posts routinely removed on Yahoo Answers, according to their Communist style system.

Answer 10

shhhhhhhhh********** your not allowed to say that! Their watching us their all watching us!

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(O.o)

Answer 11

You don't know your being censored now

Answer 12

Its when the administrainion of television broadcast says you cant say or do something (the beep noise when they swear) or somebody keeping you from writting something

Answer 13

pretty much what Y/A is doing right now when you try to discuss your opinions about the candidates running for President.

a lot of us that do a lot of research and have valid facts to present are being blocked from posting our questions and answers and our accounts are being suspended because of people throwing temper tantrums that do not know anything about the issues~!!!

i have been on here for 2 years giving facts, now they are censoring just about everything~!!!

i had 9000 points and 200 best answers with about 70 stars, so i must have been informative to a few people~!!!

and just this morning they wiped out my account because of a few children who were playing the reporting game~!!!

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me!

Answer 14

Censorship is the suppression or deletion of material which may be considered objectionable, harmful or sensitive, as determined by a censor.
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Bradbury has stated that the novel is not about censorship; he states that Fahrenheit 451 is a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature, which leads to a perception of knowledge as being comprised of "factoids", partial information devoid of context, e.g. Napoleon's birth date alone, without who he was.

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