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Censorship: One who acts as a censor, while a censor is one who examines information sources with the intent to suppress information "deemed objectionable of moral, political, military, or other grounds" or someone who "supervises the manners or morality of others" (dictionary.com).

Intellectual Freedom: "the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explore" (http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/basics/ifcensorshipqanda.cfm).