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Consistently, Baidu has censored politically sensitive search results much more thoroughly than Google.cn. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original. -- Todd Solondz
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. -- Margaret Mead
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. -- Margaret Mead
When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past. -- Ma Jian
I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?' -- Helen Thomas
I haven't heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering consequences for anti-American speech on the web in China. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Wal-Mart went on a rampage years ago insisting all music they carry be censored of all profanity and 'clean' versions be made for them to carry. -- Trent Reznor
Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who felt they needed to protect unsuspecting readers from your inflammatory words, thoughts, and images. -- Felice Picano
I think that children's books should be censored not for references to sex but for references to diseases. I mean, who didn't think after reading 'Madeline' that they were going to get appendicitis? -- Roz Chast
The thing about stand-up was, I was doing all this sketch and YouTube stuff where I was not being censored and I got to do my own thing, and it was really cool. -- Donald Glover
I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest. -- Eva Longoria
When I was a kid, I was one of those really obnoxious 'oooh oooh' girls, with my hand up in the air constantly. I've learned over the years that that's not so attractive, so I've censored that. -- Claire Danes
Pictures have a lot more power than text. Text is just a bunch of little symbols. You have to actually read it and imagine it, and even that can be censored. With pictures, it's a lot more immediate. -- Robert Crumb
And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing. -- Patrick Macnee
On Apple's special store for the Chinese market, apps related to the Dalai Lama are censored, as is one containing information about the exiled Uighur dissident leader Rebiya Kadeer. Apple similarly censors apps for iPads sold in China. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities. -- Ai Weiwei
I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material. -- Kathy Acker
Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it. Let our young people understand science correctly and hear both sides of the origins issue and then evaluate them. -- Ken Ham
I always had that sense of being censored for the things that I thought. Why is it wrong to embroider your pants, or paint with acrylics on your clothing? Why is that weird? Isn't it weirder to want to be like everyone else? -- Alice Sebold
The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored. -- Penn Jillette
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state. -- Adam Johnson
Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.' -- Ray Comfort
My week at school would be good or bad depending on whether Balmain won. I have such fond memories of those suburban grounds, and everything was so undiluted. The players weren't censored, and for me it was a wonderful period of my life when everything was simple and pure. For me, that resonated with rugby league. -- Matthew Nable
Making music on TV used to be as common as commercials. In the '60s and '70s, prime time was stuffed with variety shows headlined by such major and treasured talents as Carol Burnett, Red Skelton, the Smothers Brothers and Richard Pryor, who had a very brief comedy-variety hour on NBC that was censored literally to death. -- Tom Shales
See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored. -- Garrett Hedlund
The best things in life are censored. -- Woody Allen
Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored. -- Karl Kraus
Where the truth is censored, the truth grows claws. -- Marty Rubin
Where the truth is censored, the truth grows fangs. -- Marty Rubin
In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life. -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Religious concepts and vocabulary are certainly censored in these textbooks. -- Paul Vitz
At the U.N., any nation that fights back is censored as an "aggressor." -- Sam Levenson
I don't think that anything anyone has to say should ever be censored or unheard -- Eminem
Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored. -- Oliver Markus
There hasn't been a scandal this big at the C.I.A. since (CLASSIFIED) committed (CENSORED) to (REDACTED). -- Stephen Colbert
Homo-sexuals should not be censored, but neither should those who oppose their point of view. That's called free speech. -- Cal Thomas
All movies in China are censored. Out of 600 movies produced in China, only 60 are allowed to show in theatres. -- Ai Weiwei
The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones. -- Alain de Botton
While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented. -- Ethan Zuckerman
My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere. -- Chris Crutcher
The internet is necessarily public. It can be filtered-public or censored-public, but it necessarily has to be open and available. -- John Green
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family. -- Maya Lin
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
In America, about the only thing censored today is Christianity, the same Christianity that was the driving force behind the building of this great nation. -- Rick Scarborough
I don't read the comments anymore, unless they are moderated. Which is not to say censored, but I don't need to read someone saying, "You're ugly." -- Roxane Gay
As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself. -- Katharine Whitehorn
I guess people feel like they kind of know me. The game developer me, or the Twitter persona, that's Notch. It's a censored version. The real me is Markus. -- Markus Persson
Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything against television. I just personally don't feel curious. -- Jodhi May
To be censored is one sure way of knowing you have been taken dead seriously. It also speaks to the continuing power of the printed word, almost fifteen hundred years after that amazing invention. -- Felice Picano

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