Steven Levy Quotes

Often, the people who call the most for us to remove content are often the first to complain when it’s their content that falls on the wrong side of a policy.

What we will do is we'll say, 'Okay, you have your page, and if you're not trying to organize harm against someone, or attacking someone, then you can put up that content on your page, even if people might disagree with it or find it offensive.' But that doesn't mean that we have a responsibility to make it widely distributed in News Feed.

Companies have choices to make about what extent they're handling their users' content.

While the Internet can't be controlled 100 percent, it's possible for governments to filter content and discourage people from organizing.

Categorically to say that all content you don't like receiving is harassment would be such a broad brush it wouldn't leave us much content.

The marketing department of any given publishing house has far more power over free expression in America than any government office.

The information superhighway should not look like a red light district.

Regardless of the strength of the government's interest [in protecting children,] the level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox.

We now expect Google, Facebook, Twitter and other companies to police the Internet for dangerous and illegal material - violent, terrorist, criminal - and some democratic governments require them to do so. But what if they did decide to repress material for political reasons? How would we know?

I definitely have to censor myself a lot of the time because I'm used to just being a loose cannon, and I'm used to doing and saying whatever I want because I work on YouTube.

Can any sane person say that before something comes on the Net you must screen it? How can there be pre-screening?

Above all else, everyone at Roblox is committed to member safety. We take every precaution possible to make sure kids are protected from inappropriate and offensive individuals as well as from indecent and distasteful content.

I feel instead of censorship, we need to self-regulate ourselves while producing any kind of content.

Cable is not bound because people pay for it. It's literally a choice, that's the operative word. If you don't like the language, if cocksucker offends you, then turn it off.

Blocking material leads to censorship. That goes for pornography and bestiality, too. If you don't like it, don't look at it... Every time I hear someone say, I want to protect the children, I want to pull my hair out.

There's no human censorship at kiosks.

I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television.

I have pretty strong views about censorship, and I don't like it. I believe that we should be able to monitor our own families and our own children.

Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?

It's very difficult to censor anything anymore.

Once I fix what kids watch, I'll be moving on to everything else.

It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.

We don't always endorse what businesses sell through Stripe, but we do think it's critical that we and our peers don't act as gatekeepers for what is and isn't acceptable content.

In conclusion, you can see that there is a place for censors and we only wish that we could tell you where it is.

Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do.