I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
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.
Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.
The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms.
Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools.
I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.
A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.
There is clearly a constituency that appreciates the message that Google is sending, that it finds the Chinese government's attitude to the Internet and censorship unacceptable.
All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan.
People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.
When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.
Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.
