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Description acceptable. Robert Darnton offered a "thick description" of this phenomenon in Bourbon France, the British Raj, and East Germany. The History of Sexuality argues that this practice operated as "a regulated and polymorphous incitement to discourse." An "invisible" form of this practice occurs in television, according to a Pierre Bourdieu essay. The Supreme Court established a three-pronged test for this practice in Miller v. California. (0[1])One version of this practice, (*) prior restraint, is restricted by the First Amendment. Lord Chamberlain could exercise this practice over any British play until 1968. For 10 points, name this practice by which political actors prevent the dissemination of art or information. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: censorship [accept word forms; accept banning books; accept any description indicating the prohibition or suppression or restriction or banning of writing or reading or speaking or publishing; prompt on deeming works obscene by asking "what is the result of that?"]
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