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It's very difficult to have just a little bit of censorship.

It is a misuse of words if you say 'content censorship'. But no censorship does not mean there is no management.

Of course, hate speech and racism have no place on Facebook

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 am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

I hate censorship, man. I really do.

These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people.

They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is.

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.

Government regulation is not a dangerous usurpation of your Constitutional rights. It's just a pain in the ass.

I see the FCC responding to an already repressive society and raw censorship is the result.

Once the government starts forbidding things, then someone will come around the corner saying, “I’ve got it.”

We are the only country that allows and protects hate speech.

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

To dismiss censorship as crude repression by ignorant bureaucrats is to get it wrong. Although it varied enormously, it usually was a complex process that required talent and training and that extended deep into the social order.

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.

The intelligent defense of free speech should not rest on the notion that we must tolerate every form of speech, no matter how offensive. It's that we should lean toward greater tolerance for speech we dislike, and reserve our harshest penalties only for the worst offenders.

There is no asterisk in the Constitution that says 'except for hate speech.'

Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.

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.

We can't let censorship take over.

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