comstockery

Etymology
(and the which he propagated) +, coined in an editorial in The New York Times in 1895 and famously adopted by  in 1905.

Noun

 * 1)  Censorship of literature and performances because of especially broad definitions of obscenity or immorality.
 * 2) * 1905, George Bernard Shaw, letter, New York Times, Sept. 26, 1905,
 * Comstockery is the world's standing joke at the expense of the United States.
 * 1) * 1916, H. L. Mencken, column, Baltimore Evening Sun, July, 19, 1916,
 * A people unconvinced of the pervasiveness of sin, the supreme importance of moral problems, the need of harsh and inquisitorial laws--in brief, of the whole Puritan theological and political apparatus--would never have permitted the growth of such curious flowers as Comstockery, so obnoxious and so incomprehensible to all foreigners.