"comstockery" meaning in English

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          "text": "1905, George Bernard Shaw, letter, New York Times, Sept. 26, 1905,\nComstockery is the world's standing joke at the expense of the United States."
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          "text": "Yet while chiding extreme libertarianism, [David] Selbourne veers dangerously close to Comstockery in his tsk-tsking of noise that “masquerades as music,” gender fluidity, sperm banks, bad grammar, video plagiarists and other presumed vices.",
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