#censors

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself. ↗

— Tim Robbins

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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship. ↗

— Joichi Ito

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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#running

They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressure; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

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Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship. ↗

— Bruce Coville

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We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

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