“China said it would revoke the press credentials of Americans working for three major U.S. newspapers in the largest expulsion of foreign journalists in the post-Mao era, amid an escalating battle with the Trump administration over media operating in the two countries.”— Wall Street Journal, wsj.com
“Censorship may be tolerant of various avant-garde antics, since they keep writers busy and make literature an innocent pastime for a very restricted elite. But as soon as a writer shows signs of being attentive to reality, censorship clamps down.”— Czeslaw Milosz, jstor.org
“Even though Wondery cut ties with him, Boudet does not want people to start boycotting the company or anyone that advertises with them.”— Tim Baysinger, thewrap.com
“Banning the inevitable usually backfires. Prohibition is at best temporary, and in the long run counterproductive.”— Kevin Kelly, amazon.com
“One way of life is based upon the will of the majority, and is distinguished by free institutions, representative government, free elections, guarantees of individual liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and freedom from political oppression. The second way of life is based upon the will of a mi…”— Harry S Truman, en.wikisource.org
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”— Harry Truman, presidency.ucsb.edu
“Avant-garde artistes such as respondents remain entirely free to épater les bourgeois [shock the middle classes]; they are merely deprived of the additional satisfaction of having the bourgeoisie taxed to pay for it. It is preposterous to equate the denial of taxpayer subsidy with measures 'aimed at…”— Antonin Scalia, oyez.org
“Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they're rapping. It's easier to try to censor some kid who's swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.”— Willie Nelson, en.wikiquote.org
“Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth.”— Edward J. Lakso, Spock, Leonard Nimoy, imdb.com
“I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet. I want to know who the morons are.”— Mark Cuban, books.google.com
“All we hear from the censors is ‘What about the children?’ It’s a very emotional issue, but you can’t let the rights of children negate the rights of adults.”— Al Goldstein, filthy.media
“You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.”— Larry Flynt, books.google.com
“I am not asking for government censorship or any other kind of censorship. I am asking whether a kind of censorship already exists when the news that forty million Americans receive each night is determined by a handful of men responsible only to their corporate employers and filtered through a hand…”— Spiro Agnew, ucs.louisiana.edu
“Literature cannot develop between the categories 'permitted'—'not permitted"—'this you can and that you can't.' Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that dares not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers, such literature does not deserve the name of literatur…”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, books.google.com
“Literature becomes the living memory of a nation…woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, books.google.com
“Whatever its merits, the European position is rooted in its experiences that the free market of ideas can fail—disastrously.”— Mila Versteeg, theatlantic.com
“The question that everyone should be asking about this censorship is simple: Who decides what to censor? Who decides what counts as hateful or extremist? And who benefits when a specific video or article or report is censored?”— Elliot Friedland, clarionproject.org
“So articulate a principle, and lay out a feasible, constructive, positive vision for who can say what, when, on campus, that does not result in even further defunding and politicized assaults on our public universities. Then we could have a debate. Or else stop pretending that you actually care abou…”— Freddie DeBoer, medium.com