Quotes About Censorship

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

Even if the country is run by a Mussolini, free speech will find its way.

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.

Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.

Hate speech can't be a part of free speech.

I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech.

Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.

When controversial speech can be taken offline through pressures on private intermediaries without any kind of due process, that is something we need to be concerned about.

I'm as keen as the next person to preserve the right to free speech.

We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.

By silencing speech, the new Left makes life more dangerous by leaving violence as the only option. Maybe that's what they want.

I have no problem with free speech, but free speech and then silencing your opposition - boy, I have a problem with that.

People have gone down this spiral of cancel culture and the idea that everything is offensive.

Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.

What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash.

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.

Has anyone you know ever been ritually mutilated because they were seen reading a book?

I have spent enough time around Puritans in general, and Boston Puritans in particular, to know what these people will tell her: lock up the library! Or

However, as Franklin warned in the New-England Courant in 1722, "in those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything else his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation, must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."9

arguing that Google and Facebook should do the censoring is not just an abdication of responsibility; it is evidence of unusual naivety. As if these two companies were not already mighty enough, European politicians apparently want to give them the power to limit their citizens' free expression.

the European political elites now effectively rely on US companies such as Facebook to carry out censorship on their behalf, seemingly oblivious to the risk that Facebook's 'community standards' may end up being stricter than European law.

I love saying terrible things. Things that I think are terrible and I've gotten in to trouble in the past - just hearing it come out of my mouth or seeing it typed and seeing it out there - something terrible that in real life isn't funny.

I think my mum has the foulest mouth of anyone I've ever met.