Censorship involves, inter alia, adopting a certain type of epistemic policy. While much has been written on the harms and benefits of free expression and the associated rights thereof, the epistemic preconditions of justified censorship are relatively underexplored. In this paper, I argue that examining intrapersonal norms of how we ought to treat evidence that might come to us over time can shed light on interpersonal norms of evidence generation and sharing that are relevant in the context of censorship. The upshot is that justified censorship requires the censor to meet a very high epistemic burden regarding the target proposition(s)—importantly, one that exceeds knowledge.

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 审查员的负担


审查制度尤其包括采用某种类型的认知政策。虽然关于言论自由的利弊及其相关权利的文章很多，但合理审查的认识前提相对没有得到充分探索。在本文中，我认为，研究我们应该如何处理随着时间的推移可能出现的证据的个人内部规范，可以阐明与审查制度相关的证据生成和共享的人际规范。结果是，合理的审查制度要求审查员在目标命题方面满足非常高的认识负担——重要的是，一个超越知识的负担。