I posted this on poetics

a lot of time censorship is winnowing. And winnowing is censorship. A lot of times it is editing. And editing is censorship. A lot of times censorship is translating. Or bringing speech into text -- you know, writing = censorship.

because censorship / writing is related to rigor, an adherence, often detrimental (to new ideas, to ideas themselves) to form, consistency, logic, with a moral / ethical undertone