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Freedom of the press

Freedom of the press
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freedom of communication and expression through mediums including various electronic media and published materials

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  1. "The Soviet Government," Kautsky thunders, "has destroyed the sole remedy that might militate against corruption: the freedom of the Press. Control by means of unlimited freedom of the Press alone could have restrained those bandits and adventurers who will inevitably cling like leeches to every unlimited, uncontrolled power." (Page 188.) And so on. The Press as a trusty weapon of the struggle with corruption!

    Leon Trotsky, Dictatorship vs. Democracy

    The chapter “"FREEDOM OF THE PRESS"” is titled for Freedom of the press; names Freedom of the press twice.

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  2. The time, it is to be hoped, is gone by, when any defence would be necessary of the "liberty of the press" as one of the securities against corrupt or tyrannical government. No argument, we may suppose, can now be needed, against permitting a legislature or an executive, not identified in interest with the people, to prescribe opinions to them, and determine what doctrines or what…

    John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

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  3. Nothing so effectual to this purpose as the liberty of the press; by which all the learning, wit, and genius of the nation, may be employed on the side of freedom, and every one be animated to its defence. As long, therefore, as the republican part of our government can maintain itself against the monarchical, it will naturally be careful to keep the press open, as of importance to its own preservation.[1] It must…

    David Hume, Essays

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