What is censorship?
It's the forcible prevention of the transmission of information. In the context
of an adversarial situation, such as the invasion of a Free Nation by a
Socialist State, the act of censorship is morally mandatory. Such an
invader has no more right to information about the defending forces than
a biker gang has to the location of your wife or daughters. In the
context of a civil society, valid information concerning those holding
or seeking public office and their goals and beliefs, is necessary in
order for members of the electorate to make a valid decision when they
exercise their authority. To vote correctly, the voter needs to know
the truth about office seekers and their beliefs and personal conduct.
Those who must suppress the transmission of valid information, such as
corrupt office holders who are acting through their lieutenants, or
through the local campus communist goon squad, are harmful to the
individual citizens and the political community as a whole. Those who
attempt to practice censorship in a civil society are enemies of that
society and must be identified and dealt with as such.
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