Wikipedia defines Censorship as:
The suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the government or media organisations as determined by censor.
Basically, Censorship means to silence or alter something so it doesn't upset, influence, confuse etc the audience, this could be in film or go as far as the censorship applied in Russia, where there is extreme censorship applied to the Russian press/media.
The Obscene Publications Act prohibits material which "tends to deprave or corrupt persons who are likely to read, see or hear it", and other laws apply to specifically video releases.
Though very vague, the law is generally held to apply to anything which might encourage criminal activity by those watching it, especially if it encourages violence or sexual violence.
Interestingly, the BBFC last year consulted the police as to whether car theft scenes in Gone In Sixty Seconds were likely to assist would-be car thieves.
taken from The Guardian Official Website
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