George Orwell: The Prevention of Literature - The Atlantic - 0 views
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the much more tenable and dangerous proposition that freedom is undesirable and that intellectual honesty is a form of antisocial selfishness
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the controversy over freedom of speech and of the press is at bottom a controversy over the desirability, or otherwise, of telling lies.
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What is really at issue is the right to report contemporary events truthfully, or as truthfully as is consistent with the ignorance, bias, and self-deception from which every observer necessarily suffers
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