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title: "5 Speech Censorship Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [In 2021 social media is how the world communicates, and the enforcement of arbitrary content guidelines imperil free speech. As censorship increases,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-malliotakis/in-2021-social-media-is-how-the-world-communicates-and-the/)

[Nicole Malliotakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-malliotakis/)

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> [If you have an internet service provider that's capable of slowing down other sites, or putting other sites out of business, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-copps/if-you-have-an-internet-service-provider-that-s-capable-of-slowing/)

[Michael Copps](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-copps/)

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> [Liberals are not about choice; they are about imposition. The way they live, the way they believe, must be imposed on people,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rush-limbaugh/liberals-are-not-about-choice-they-are-about-imposition-the-way-they/)

[Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rush-limbaugh/)

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> [“If you love freedom, if you think the human condition is dignified by privacy, by the right to be left alone, by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cory-doctorow/if-you-love-freedom-if-you-think-the-human-condition-is-dignified-by/)

[Cory Doctorow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cory-doctorow/)

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> [“Indeed, an astoundingly small proportion of arguments ‘for free speech’ and ‘against censorship’ or ‘banning’ are, in fact, about free speech, censorship…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/china-mi-ville/indeed-an-astoundingly-small-proportion-of-arguments-for-free-speech/)

[China Miéville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/china-mi-ville/)

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                        "text": "Liberals are not about choice; they are about imposition. The way they live, the way they believe, must be imposed on people, otherwise they won’t do it on their own,” he added. “It’s taken them 50, 60 years to get to this point of conditioning people, of taking hold of the education system, the university, academia system, the media. It’s taken a long time to condition people not to stand up for themselves, not to exercise freedom, not to speak outside the acceptable norms. What is political correctness but speech censorship, is all it is.",
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