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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Censorship Century Distance Faith Good Good Reason Had Ireland Irish Kept Literature Produced Reason Sources Suffered Tense Terrible Twentieth Twentieth Century Writing

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We can't let censorship take over.

~Elmer Davis

Topics: Censorship Over Take

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The Central Propaganda Department is the highest-ranking censorship agency in China. And it has control over everything from the appointment of newspaper editors to university professors to the way that films are cut and distributed.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Agency Appointment Censorship Central China Control Cut Department Distributed Editors Everything Films Newspaper Over Professors Propaganda University Way

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If you're going to have a book published in China, that means that you're going to be subject to in-house censorship at the publisher, and then also, of course, the government has an apparatus that is in charge of making sure that ideas that are considered disruptive or overly critical, that those don't get onto bookstore shelves.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Also Apparatus Book Bookstore Censorship Charge China Considered Course Critical Disruptive Get Going Government Ideas Making Means Onto Overly Published Publisher Shelves Subject Sure Then Those You

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The problem is that in order to publish a book in mainland China, you have to agree to be subject to censorship. That's the nature of the system. I don't challenge that system on its face. It's their system. But as an author, I have a choice to make whether I'll participate or I won't.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Agree Author Book Censorship Challenge China Choice Face Make Nature Order Participate Problem Publish Subject System Whether You

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Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools.

~Evgeny Morozov

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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

~Federico Fellini

Topics: Advertising Censorship Government Paid

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The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.

~Felice Picano

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Even a very brief tape-delay introduces a form of censorship into the broadcast - not direct governmental control, but it means that a network representative is in effect guessing at what a government might tolerate, which can be even worse.

~Frank Pierson

Topics: Brief Broadcast Censorship Control Direct Effect Even Even Worse Form Government Guessing Means Might Network Representative Tolerate Very Which Worse

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I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

~Fred Wilson

Topics: Bigot Censorship Free Free Speech Good Good Thing Just Like Speech Thing Think A Good Thing

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