Quotes About Censorship

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

We can't edit people's content. We have to give them a platform to express themselves, and if they say something that the government doesn't like, we can't go delete it. We can't give the guy's IP address to the government.

OTT platforms have taken away the pressure that would plague films earlier... the pressure of box office, the number of screens it will be played in, what kind of stars it has or even the pressure of censorship... This is a really big deal.

There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.

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.

People are deciding - if they don't like a particular point of view or a particular paper, it goes out of business.

When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view.

The court can, and must, only maintain its legitimacy through the dispensation of justice, not by coercion and censorship.

The day people stop watching sex comedies, makers will stop making them.

One thing about television in Britain is that they're so scared about complaints. It curbs a lot of drama.

We long to have a home where civil freedoms are respected, where our children will not be subject to mass surveillance, abuse of human rights, political censorship and mass incarceration. We stand with all the free peoples of the world and hope you stand with us in our quest for justice and freedom.

We long to have a home where civil freedoms are respected, where our children will not be subject to mass surveillance, abuse of human rights, political censorship and mass incarceration.

China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.

I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.

The odd swear word doesn't harm anyone, does it?

Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.

I find a lot of swearing in films. And I guess that shows my age. But I also feel that where they say those words, they could just as easily have written other words.

In Europe and Sweden, we see boobs on TV, and it's not a big deal. Everyone has them; everyone has seen them.

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

The Soviet system of propaganda and censorship existed not so much for the purpose of spreading a particular message as for the purpose of making learning impossible, replacing facts with mush, and handing the faceless state a monopoly on defining an ever-shifting reality.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

Ogni mediazione proietta un suo miraggio; i miraggi si susseguono come altrettante "verità" che subentrino alle verità anteriori come una vera e propria uccisione del ricordo vivente e si proteggano dalle verità future con una censura implacabile dell'esperienza quotidiana. Marcel Proust chiama "Io" i "mondi" proiettati dalle successive mediazioni. Gli Io sono perfettamente isolati gli uni dagli altri, incapaci di rammentarsi degli Io passati o di presagire gli Io futuri.