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Could “Rule of the Bone” have fallen so far into obscurity that it’s not engaging disaffected teens and shocking a new generation of censorial politicians?

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2023

The memory laws place censorial power in the hands of students and their parents.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2021

The viral gags have irked China’s censorial government officials for years.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2018

Finally, the Playgoerhas dug up an amusing anecdote about the state that British theatre existed in when it lived under the censorial quill of the Lord Chamberlain.

From The Guardian • Dec. 2, 2010

This, as he says, with the necessity that members should be re-elected, "has delivered into the hands of the people at large the exercise of the censorial power."

From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Laski, Harold Joseph