PRAGOTI

It is interesting to see that you have quoted Marx in writing this piece. However, from the source that you have possibly taken, namely: ‘Marx on Freedom of the Press’ and from the subsection, ‘Censorship’, Marx also points out the following: “The censorship law, therefore, is not a law, it is a police measure; but it is a bad police measure, for it does not achieve what it intends, and it does not intend what it achieves… A censorship law is an impossibility because it seeks to punish not offences but opinions, because it cannot be anything but a formula for the censor, because no state has the courage to put in general legal terms what it can carry out in practice through the agency of the censor. For that reason, too, the operation of the censorship is entrusted not to the courts but to the police.” Now since Marx argues that a censorship law in principle, is a "police measure" and that too "a bad police measure" and moreover it "seeks to punish not offences but opinions", do you think that there should not be any censorship at all in our world? In other words, do you believe in absolute freedom and autonomy of individual views without any censorship? Do you think that we need a censorship free society?