The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

quote by John Perry Barlow
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The Tidings

(Easter 1916)

Censored lies that mimic truth…
Censored truth as pale as fear…
My heart is like a rousing bell -
And but the dead to hear…

My heart is like a mother bird,
Circling ever higher,
And the nest-tree rimmed about
By a forest fire…

My heart is like a lover foiled
By a broken stair -
They are fighting to-night in Sackville Street,
And I am not there!

poem by Lola Ridge
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Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.

quote by Zoe Saldana
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

quote by Dick Cavett
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The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

quote by Tommy Smothers
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Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

quote by William Westmoreland
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The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

quote by Marilyn Monroe
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The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.

quote by Claudio Hummes
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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

quote by Margaret Mead
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Censor a self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.

quote by Bennett Alfred Cerf
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These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people.

quote by Max Cannon
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I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.

quote by Lydia Lunch
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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

quote by Margaret Mead
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Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.

quote by Todd Solondz
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Literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor.

quote by William Orville Douglas
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Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

quote by William O. Douglas
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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.

quote by Clare Booth Luce
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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home but, unlike charity, it should end there.

quote by Clare Booth Luce
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In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.

quote by Dario Argento
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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

quote by Clare Booth Luce
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