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...greatest threat is putting restrictions on knowledge that you need for security,” he says. “Fundamentally, censorship of science is the antithesis of its objective...
According to critics like Bloom, both restrictive contracts and self-censorship could have devastating effects on the exchange of information, ultimately paralyzing, rather than protecting, the biological advances that might be used to protect the country...
...Their censorship orders are totally groundless, absolutely arbitrary, at odds with the basic standards of civilization, and as counter to scientific common sense as witches and wizardry." JIAO GUOBIAO, a journalism professor at Peking University in Beijing, criticizing the Chinese Communist Party's censorship policies in a banned essay that has been circulated widely on the Internet...
Palfrey said the discrepancies may be ascribed to the government’s desire to intimidate citizens despite limited censorship capabilities...
Both Palfrey and Deibert agreed that there may be cases where some censorship is necessary and desirable, but that it should always remain transparent...