| − | '''Censorship''' is the act of withholding information from a larger audience by a group of people or a single person who has the power to do so. Oftentimes it is done for the supposed protection of the ''people'', or to keep the group of people from knowing something bad about the empowered people. | + | '''Censorship''' is the act of withholding information from a larger audience by an official who has the authority to do so. The name is that of the Roman officials from the era of the classical republic, who conducted the census and supervised public morality. |