Famous Quotes & Sayings

We strongly regret the measures taken by the parliament and government today to, in effect, introduce a state of emergency and to introduce censorship of the Albanian press.

John Carpenter

There was no real censorship involved, which is a tantalizing draw,

It's a form of censorship in its crudest and rudest form.

William Douglas

Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be squared with the First Amendment. Under that test, juries can censor, suppress, and punish what they don't like, provided the matter relates to "sexual impurity" or has a tendency "to excite lustful thoughts." This is community censorship in one of its worst forms.

Bahman Ghobadi

I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.

What really upset me is censorship of the slightest hint of Christianity.

We chose the languages because we wanted to help people, and the people that needed to be helped were Chinese-speaking person, Farsi-speaking person and Arabic-speaking person, ... In these countries, the censorship was so heavy that you need technical skills to circumvent the censorship and to be able to publish things anonymously.

Dan Gillmor

If [domain seizure] isn't direct censorship, I don't know what is.

Richard King

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

Storm Jameson

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

Tommy Smothers

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

Steve Forbes

There's no human censorship at kiosks.

John Palfrey

China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet.

To reject the word is to reject the human search.

Potter Stewart

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

Censorship is imposing on others to live as one wishes to live.

Censorship in China is nothing new, but the growing co-operation of U.S. technology companies in China's repressive policies is.

Tom Ford

One of the most important lessons everyone can take from 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' whether they support the war in Iraq, oppose the war or are undecided, is that we need less censorship in this country, not more.

Sue Gardner

Wikipedia has experienced censorship at the hands of industry groups and governments, and we are - increasingly, I think - seeing important decisions made by unaccountable, non-transparent corporate players, a shift from the open web to mobile walled gardens, and a shift from the production-based Internet to one that's consumption-based.

Government censorship can slow down, but can't reverse this trend.

Mike Rogers

Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship.

Under current law, the legal question of whether speech is obscene is determined partly by reference to local community standards, ... EFF is concerned that these venue rules permits censorship of speech on the Internet under the standards of the least tolerant community, negating the values that the community standards doctrine was intended to protect -- diversity and localism in the marketplace of ideas.

People who question some of the facts of the Holocaust are ostracized; most publishers are so sensitive they won't even get into the argument. A degree of censorship is imposed that is not articulated in this case.

John Pilger

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

John Palfrey

It's related to the problems that Yahoo and Microsoft and others are facing in China, ... but here the issue is that these technology security companies are directly profiting from the censorship regime itself.

Clive Barker

It's irritating, because I would like to make movies that were as unrelenting and as explicit in their metaphysical, sexual and violent imagery as the stories. But with the way censorship is at present, there's no way you can do that.

The Chinese leadership has been more severe in the censorship of the media, its crackdown on underground churches, dissidents and the Internet.

The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply troubled by your government's harassment and censorship of journalists,

Jason Hill

The guy, since he started, has felt censorship shouldn't apply, and this is a move he's earned.

The idea that immigration law is being used as a tool of censorship is unacceptable. By regulating speech at our borders, we are sending the wrong message to the world. We must not have a double standard regarding the freedom of speech and dissent. That is one of the strengths of our democracy.

The DMCA set up a system where, essentially, the government outsourced censorship of science,

Judy Blume

Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.

Karl Kraus

Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden