To Have Intellectual Freedom Or To Be Censored Topic: Should intellectual freedom be restricted? Should laws censor the freedom of thought? Although there are many counter arguments about the subject of the intellectual freedom, there is a simple truth that can not be forgotten. Every person should have the right to express his/her feelings and thoughts, as intellectual freedom is the basic freedom of human beings. If anyone doesn’t have this freedom, he/she can not have any others. As the definition made by John B. Harer (1992:3) states, “intellectual freedom is a complex conceptualizing of the human r