#censorship

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance. ↗

— John Pilger

#chance #films #like #mine #stand

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. ↗

— John Gilmore

#censorship #damage #interprets #net #routes

Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off. ↗

— Richard King

#cut #everyone #guy #his #ideas

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

#audience #because #censorship #denying #event

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#censorship #extreme #form

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

— George Bernard Shaw

#condition #first #progress #removal

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut. ↗

— Ice-T

#controversy #metaphor #racism #rap #censorship

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. ↗

— Geraldine Brooks

#books #censorship #censorship

Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#big #box #censorship #clear #course

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death! ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#education #free-speech #paraphrased #death