Salomon Rushdie spoke on 60 minutes regarding censorship.
"There seems to be a kind of growing orthodoxy, particularly amongst young people, that censorship … is a good thing," Rushdie told correspondent Anderson Cooper.
"The thing that's different now is that it's also coming from progressive voices," he said. "There are progressive voices saying that certain kinds of speech should be not permitted because it offends against this or that vulnerable group."
Rushdie said that when speech is suppressed, the people who are first impacted are often minority groups.
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