The word "censor" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to the suppression or deletion of speech/writing/media that is considered offensive or objectionable. For example: "In this new political climate, many movies are being censored for their controversial content."
"Extending Ofcom's powers to enable it to take pre-emptive action would move it from its current position as a post-transmission regulator into the role of censor".
If we are 'offended' we can just look away, not censor.
Most of the Zulus involved had never been to a cinema, and black audiences were banned from seeing the film by the apartheid censor board, but special arrangements were made to show it to those who took part.
Denying the comic power of this cover would be another way to censor it, smothering the joke with anxieties.
Raphael wrote: "We believe our audience is sophisticated enough to accept a broad range of viewpoints, and we are loth to censor or avoid significant works of literature because they might be controversial".
"Sooner or later, surely, they must start to feel ashamed of their paper's attempt to bully and censor?" Both former cabinet minister Lord Tebbit, and Lord Bell, former adviser and friend to Thatcher, criticised the BBC decision in the Mail on Sunday, with Tebbit telling the paper: "It's a sick book from a sick mind and it's being promoted by a sick broadcasting corporation".
In China, said McEwan, "to censor daily the internet alone, the Chinese government employs as many as fifty thousand bureaucrats – a level of thought repression unprecedented in human history".
If Erdoğan or his aides do not call the top managers and editors of the media to publish propaganda or censor undesirable content, the owners themselves do it.
That followed an initial suggestion by the home secretary, Theresa May, to give Ofcom unprecedented powers to take pre-emptive action against broadcasters, which was subsequently criticised by her cabinet colleague Sajid Javid who warned it would turn the regulator into a state "censor".
The author's, and the protagonist's, concern for the needs of the individual was vulnerable against the novel's tumultuous events and the Soviet censor.
As difficult as it might be to believe, Bachmann did occasionally censor herself, as when she carefully departed from the spotlight in the aftermath of that close election.
