a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable
v.
forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
Anand became the chief of India's film censor board three years ago and kicked up a controversy with a proposal to assign special ratings to films with explicit content.
From then on he endured internal exile in three different locations, followed by a lowly position at court which enabled Nicholas I, the new tsar, to function as Pushkin's personal censor while flirting with his new young wife.