Censor or censure?

noun One of the two magistrates who originally administered the census of citizens, and by Classical times (between the 8th century B.C.E. and the 6th century C.E.) was a high judge of public behaviour…

The Ancient Roman censors were part of the cursus honorum, a series of public offices held during a political career, like consuls and praetors

verb To review for, and if necessary to remove or suppress, content from books, films, correspondence, and other media which is regarded as objectionable (for example, obscene, likely to incite violence…

The people responsible for censoring films have seen some startling things in their time

noun A hypothetical subconscious agency which filters unacceptable thought before it reaches the conscious mind

noun A high-ranking official who was responsible for the supervision of subordinate government officials

verb To partially obscure an observation

Early dropout is one cause of right-censoring

noun An official responsible for the removal or suppression of objectionable material (for example, if obscene or likely to incite violence) or sensitive content in books, films, correspondence, and other…

The headmaster was an even stricter censor of his boarding pupils’ correspondence than the enemy censors had been of his own when the country was occupied

noun A college or university official whose duties vary depending on the institution

noun An algorithm that approves or rejects something on grounds of taste or morality etc

I tried using a dirty word as my user name for the online game, but the censor rejected it

noun The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension

verb To criticize harshly

noun Official reprimand

verb To formally rebuke

noun A judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment