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Censorship: waging war on free speech

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Censorship Doesn't Work

Censorship certainly works with respect to the unfortunates who are jailed or murdered for what they are saying. But the ideas themselves persist. Censorship is, by nature incomplete. There's always another source willing to provide whatever in a work has been censored. When something is censored, that also creates a forbidden fruit aspect that makes it more attractive and more a necessary for people to have. As soon as the printing press was invented there was an instant black market profiting from the profits to be made from the forbidden books. What is ban to day often becomes the standard of i'm going to reach wayway back in the second century a d. Despite the best efforts, censorship simply

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