[kptcbntb] Questioning censorship policies

Questions to ask about any proposal for a censorship policy:

Will it achieve the desired effect?  Censorship may not solve the underlying problem that is causing the objectionable speech; after a censorship policy, objectionable actions fueled by the underlying problem but not falling within the purview of the policy may occur.

Will it curtail the undesirable speech?  Censorship policies may drive the speech underground, where it may continue unabated.

Will it be enforced fairly?  Speech is in general easy to do, so forbidding certain speech may have the problem of a great many people violating the policy, with a justice system not capable of pursuing every alleged violation.  Therefore, the justice system must pick and choose whom to prosecute, wherein there is tremendous opportunity for abuse and political corruption.

Will there be mission creep?  A censorship policy originally forbidding a narrow or vaguely defined category of speech may become more and more expanded over time.

Will desirable speech also become suppressed?  Not only may there be desirable speech that becomes strictly forbidden, but there may be a chilling effect against speech in a perceived gray area in which the speaker is not sure if it violates the policy, so chooses to be silent out of uncertain fear.

(I have noticed people really love their censorship policies, often to an irrational degree.)