My bias tells me that not every picture has meaning, and that not everyone approaches images holistically. Photos should promote and engage viewers in some type of feeling or energy that stems from their experiences, moments, real life scenarios, or scenarios of real life worst fears. Photographs can be anything that reality is made up of, but there is always a chance that there are things within that reality which could be taken over by the personal biases of the artist. Censorship is a grey area that includes anything before or beyond and between the extortion of someone's privacy, to a governments sanctioning limits on media outputs that house international browsing interfaces.
An artist should be able to showcase their political stances in work and to represent their personal views through their lenses, as long as they're being aware and respectful of the audience they're getting views from. As important as the taker of the image, comes the receiver of it. What good is an artist trying to portray an accurate and honest depiction if the viewer doesn't understand the possible implications of the artist leaving out vital pieces of information pertaining to the subjects circumstances? The type of audience that accepts works without delving into their meanings and creations are lost to the collective importance of both artist conscious and personality aesthetic working together, aesthetic of which comes after, to understand that everything shiny and bright is really not as good as it seems on the outer edges of its background, and that even everything gruesomely ill has a natural tendency for realness. This realization develops alongside societies growing ability to recognize, accept, and change it's behaviors as a whole, which usually start with individuals beginning to change society as a one.
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