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There are lot's of words that end with the suffix ship. Friendship, fellowship, membership and hundreds more. Most of these words have a reason for having this suffix at the end. The suffix ship is one used to form nouns of state or condition, chiefly added to nouns and especially personal nouns. It can denote: quality, condition or also skill, act or power. When coming across the word censorship (especially when coming across the act itself), power is the one that leaps to mind. It's been ages since I came across real censorship. In advertising you do sometimes stumble upon censorship but even then it's "for the right reasons" (don't show nudity in prime time when kids can be watching and so on and so fourth). But when it appears in the form of narrow minded or even pathetic thinking, it shows how sometimes power is being used in the most ugliest way. So without further a due or redundant and double standard (sorry but it will be unethical on my part to explain the double standard issue) censorship...