On Censorship

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

— Claude Adrien Helvétius


Those who push for bans and censorship back in my old country may take this as a valid rationale for justifying them – people are fools and need to be ‘protected’
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