"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.“


-Noam Chomsky

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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

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