“I often say that censorship is always a cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.”

Source: Julian Assange, "When Google Met Wikileaks" (ORbooks, New York, 2014), p. 121

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