John Stuart Mill (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
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The son of a Scottish economist, Mill was a godson and sometime pupil of Jeremy Bentham—a bitter opponent of press censorship. Mill’s own most systematic defense of freedom of expression appears in On Liberty (1859). In that renowned essay he observes that in liberal democracies—which he calls “constitutional countries”—governments do not often try to censor expression of opinion, except when they express the intolerance of the general public. Mill asserts,...
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