Self-censorship
noun
1.
the act or practice of censoring.
2.
the office or power of a censor.
3.
the time during which a censor holds office.
4.
the inhibiting and distorting activity of the Freudian censor.
self-censorship
noun
1.
the regulation of a group’s actions and statements by its own members rather than an external agency
noun
1.
a policy or programme of censoring
2.
the act or system of censoring
3.
(psychoanal) the activity of the mind in regulating impulses, etc, from the unconscious so that they are modified before reaching the conscious mind
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