Censorship is the silencing of speech, the human ability to express thoughts and feelings through written, spoken, or signed language. Speech articulates our desires to connect through the exchange of language. Yet language rests in the hands of a singular structure defined by power, whether military, governmental, corporate, or otherwise. For centuries these powers have practiced censorship as a method of control, and other forms of oversight that include self-censorship and the policing of social media. It is the violent silencing of voices, the active practice of restricting the expression of another, be they writer, poet, artist, or activist—dead or alive.