Thomas Borchert writes:

Not at all. The way freedom of speech works (apart from the fact that
the concept doesn't apply to discussions between people anyway) is this:
You may say whatever you want and you will not be prohibited from saying
anything - but you can fully expect to be judged on it and to be held
accountable for it.

Not quite. Some types of "being held accountable" amount to little more than
censorship, and the only reason they do not act through prior restraint is
that the technical means of physically preventing people from uttering the
forbidden words in advance are lacking. If everyone who utters the word
"tree" is sent to prison, that's censorship; the fact that people are not
prevented from uttering it doesn't make it any less so.

Thus, banning books or burning them is censorship, even though the books have
been printed.

Of course, if you live in a place with a long and sorry distinction of
infringements upon freedom of speech continuing up to the present day, you may
not have learned of this distinction.

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