Rod Serling on censorship and where it really comes from

In a 1959 interview with Mike Wallace, The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling described his experiences fighting the "antiseptic, rigid" qualities of censorship.

In this clip above, he describes "precensorship"-what would now be more often described as self-censorship-the prior knowledge of the writer of what he cannot get through, and therefore shies away from.

Here's the full show:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpKkHCVbSyw&ab_channel=PaulEres

The buck, he suggests, stops not with censors or networks, but with the audience, with whose consent these authorities operate. Here's a transcript.