English-French translations for self-censorship

• auto-censure
  En présentant aujourd'hui cette résolution, le Parlement européen pratique une véritable auto-censure. The European Parliament's current resolutions are nothing short of self-censorship.
  C'est exactement le genre de chose qui mène à la censure et à l'auto-censure qui sont déplorées ailleurs dans le rapport. This is exactly the kind of thing that leads to the censorship and self-censorship that are lamented elsewhere in the report.
  Le rapport met, à juste titre, en garde contre la censure non officielle et l'auto-censure qui apparaissent lorsque certains sujets sont exclus du débat public. The report is quite right to warn against the non-official censorship and self-censorship that come about when certain topics are excluded from the public debate.
• autocensure
  Je pense que le risque d'autocensure est très faible. I think the risk of self-censorship is very slight.
  Bon nombre de médias sont muselés par le gouvernement ou pratiquent l'autocensure. Many media are under government control or operate self-censorship.
  La réalité est que la liberté d'expression et la liberté de la presse succombent à une autocensure stricte. The reality is that freedom of speech and press freedom are succumbing to a strict self-censorship.

Definition of self-censorship

• The act of censoring one's own work or what one says without overt pressure from any specific party or institution of authority, often for fear of sanctions

Related words

• self-centred
• self-centered
• self-centeredness
• self-censor