censorship

sensuuri

sensurointi The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression or freedom of the press|press, such as passing laws to prevent media from being published or propagated.
1899, w:A. C. Benson|Arthur Christopher Benson, The life of Edward White Benson, sometime Archbishop of Canterbury: Volume 1

such a curious thing — it is the only thing left of the old censorship of the press."

I think that censorship is an admission that you have lost an argument