#censor

Without freedom of speech there is no modern world, just a barbaric one. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#freedom-of-speech #freedom

Irreverence is our only sacred cow. ↗

— Paul Krassner

#satire #censorship

There should be no censorship of mail. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#mail #should

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. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#censorship #discussion #education #full #internet

Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that! ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#fahrenheit- #censorship

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

— John Gilmour

#censorship #damage #internet #interprets #routes

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#enlightenment

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers? ↗

— Juvenal

#censorship

Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'? ↗