#censors

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#free-speech #freedom

The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#conspiracy-theories #democracy #dictatorship #freedom #human-rights

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened. ↗

— Morley Safer

#control #cover #financial #happened #influence

I worry about censorship in many parts of the world. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#censorship #i #many #parts #world

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#ends #evil #impossible #measure #results

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#censors #condemned #erase #furiously #government

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line. ↗

— Langston Hughes

#begins #being #black #censorship #color

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print. ↗

— John Mortimer

#dread #fear #fearful #feel #flattered

How must it have felt, Pikes, the night they seized your films, like entrails yanked from the camera, out of your guts, clutching them in coils and wads to stuff them up a stove to burn away! Did it feel as bad as having some fifty thousand books annihilated with no recompense? Yes. Yes. Stendahl felt his hands grow cold with the senseless anger. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#books #censorship #destruction #anger

This could seem counterintuitive for many dictators running communist or socialist single-party states, but a thriving private tech industry can contribute invaluable tools to help you implement a controllable internet. The reason is fairly simple: the technologies that transform internet applications into more personalized, efficient and enjoyable experiences are usually the same ones that increase the capacity to monitor its users. ↗

— Laurier Rochon

#dicatators #internet #experience