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Justification for #2...
John Stuart Mill argues that censorship is wrong because, as fallible human beings, we can never know for sure which ideas are true and which
are false; we might therefore suppress true ideas, thinking they are false. Also, true ideas must be tested from time to time
in order to remain alive, rather than falling into "dead dogmas." And, even false ideas might sometimes contain some
truth, so suppressing them would suppress the truth along with the falsity. From a natural rights standpoint, we all (as thinking human beings) have a natural right to information, and censorship interferes with this right.
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