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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.
I haven't watched any shows online but I know that the content is not crippled by censorship and is much more experimental.
Censorship should never go. But we can always give a little more space to the director.
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
Popular culture, in all its crudeness, is the output of liberals. It is liberalism that for decades has rejected any protest as 'censorship' or 'McCarthyism.'
Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.
I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.
China's censorship and propaganda systems may be complex and multilayered, but they are obviously not well coordinated.
Our studies have shown that China's online censorship systems are by far the most sophisticated and extensive in the world.
Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.
Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.
In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.
The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.
You should not be subjected to the pressures, the intimidation, whether by Government or by the private sector, which would force you into self-censorship.
And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.
All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.
When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.
The court can, and must, only maintain its legitimacy through the dispensation of justice, not by coercion and censorship.
The media's censorship is unthinkable... If we don't stop, we are going to end up like North Koreans.
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.
I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.
I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.
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.
I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.
If there is anything that the ACLU hates more than censorship, it is any form of public religious expression.
Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship.
I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.
Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values.
Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
As long as it is supported by Democratic politicians and by liberal Hollywood players, censorship is a useful tool to stifle dissent.
Music is an artform, and I always though art was beyond censorship. I thought this was a common view. Apparently, I was wrong.
There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.
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.
... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.
In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.
We've been dealing with censorship around multimedia, about multinational companies and the content they create, for a very long time.
Censorship is a really big deal, but online you don't have anything. You have slightly more freedom.
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
Censorship makes me really angry. I even hate it when people censor themselves.
The fact that we don't have censorship on the Internet really gives you a lot of freedom, as makers and creative people do what they believe in.
I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works.
I feel instead of censorship, we need to self-regulate ourselves while producing any kind of content.
What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.
Yes, I would not like to see censorship on OTT content but there are some people who really take advantage of this.
The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.
Censorship is un-American, and it's egregious that any journalist would advocate for others to be banned for political speech.
I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.
Many filmmakers have had that experience. They make a movie, then out of nowhere, they either pass censorship or fail.
I think censorship in the name of fighting fake news is a dangerous thing for Pakistan.
When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.
Censorship does not interfere with the constitutional rights of every American to sit alone in a dark room in the nude and cuss.
It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan.
Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.