Censorship Laws Quotes

Google will be obliged either to accept Chinese regulations or exit the world's largest Internet market, with serious consequences for its long-term global ambitions. This is a metaphor for our times: America's most dynamic company cannot take on the Chinese government - even on an issue like free and open information - and win.

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

Freedom of the press, printing, publication and mass media shall be guaranteed. Censorship on newspapers is forbidden as well as notifying, suspending or cancelling them by administrative methods. In a state of emergency or in time of war a limited censorship may be imposed on the newspapers, publications and mass media in matters related to public safety or purposes of national security in accordance with the law.

The fact that there aren't more restrictions on the media is disgraceful.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship

The way we censor in America is the dollar. That's who censors.

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

Any person shall be entitled to publish his thoughts in printing, in writing, and in speech ... Censorship and other preventive measures shall never again be introduced.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

The whole principle [of censorship] is wrong. It's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't have steak.

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

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

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.

Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment.

The First Amendment's language leaves no room for inference that abridgments of speech and press can be made just because they are slight. That Amendment provides, in simple words, that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." I read "no law . . . abridging" to mean no law abridging.

It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan.

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.

Free press is not absolute. In this country, we say clearly if you start stirring up racial hatred, then we will put a stop to it. We might even close down your paper, because these things can only lead to a lot of riots and bloodshed.

There is no functional difference between censorship and the threat of censorship.

It would probably surprise people how prevalent reading is in institutions - and the degree to which some states discourage reading by instituting draconian rules and laws that try to limit and outright roadblock books in prisons.

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

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

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

Censorship does not interfere with the constitutional rights of every American to sit alone in a dark room in the nude and cuss.

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.