What is Censorship?
Censorship is 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’re 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.