Historians have commonly distinguished censorship as a policy from its enforcement.
He believes that lack of clarity over rights is leading to covert censorship of the circulation of ideas.
Illuminating the documents are volume, chapter and source overviews, giving useful information on matters such as newspaper circulation numbers, censorship and reporting conditions.
Open censorship of such divines was thus not only undesirable, but might not in fact be necessary.
Censorship of the press applied as much to news and information as to political opinions during this period.
The "necessary evils" of social purity and censorship must be credited in part for our perception of individual writers and their literary legacy.
In addition, it seems that a censorship had been conducted when the records of the war were compiled.
Without the scar, the censoring machinery operates invisibly; with it, a trace remains by which the censorship can be seen as such.
