> Self-censorship means reading your own text with the eyes of another person, a situation where you become your own judge, stricter and more suspicious than an

> Self-censorship means reading your own text with the eyes of another person, a situation where you become your own judge, stricter and more suspicious than anyone else. That's how many people write novels! All humor aside, Snowden has once again managed to convince me that he is one of the most articulate--yet horror-inducing--thinkers of our age. The fact that, were he to talk to a podcast, the discussion's transcript would be close to pure text quality is what I love about the guy. BTW Freud goes pretty deep on the matter of internalized surveillance in his book 'Civilization & its Discontents', written in 1929. It's supposedly one of the mechanisms that keep society functioning: you don't need cops if citizens are copping themselves.