Have you ever joined a Sexaholics Anonymous teleconference meeting and the secretary or moderator interrupted you and said, “stick to the question”. Your answer is off the subject?
This happens at face-to-face meetings as well, but generally there is MUCH more tolerance if people can look into the eyes of the one sharing and see if they individual sharing is sincere. Obviously, if the person sharing is literally crying, they are obviously distraught (distracted; deeply agitated; mentally deranged; crazed) and probably being honest.
Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication or other information which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by governments, media outlets, authorities or other groups or institutions.
Governments, private organizations and individuals may engage in censorship. When an individual such as an author or other creator engages in censorship of their own works or speech, it is called self-censorship. Censorship may be direct or it may be indirect, in which case it is called soft censorship. It occurs in a variety of different media, including speech, books, music, films, and other arts, the press, radio, television, and the Internet for a variety of claimed reasons including national security, to control obscenity, child pornography, and hate speech, to protect children or other vulnerable groups, to promote or restrict political or religious views, and to prevent slander and libel.
Direct censorship may or may not be legal, depending on the type, place, and content. Many countries provide strong protections against censorship by law, but none of these protections are absolute and frequently a claim of necessity to balance conflicting rights is made, in order to determine what can and cannot be censored. There are no laws against self-censorship.
