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Why not hear what the author himself has to say about it? http://www.raybradbury.com/images/video/about_freeDOM.html

'I agree; what an idiot.'

The really idiotic thing would be to take one quote out of context and assume this represents the world view of a very thoughtful writer. It's pretty clear from what he's said elsewhere, as in 'Bradbury on the Internet':

http://www.raybradbury.com/at_home_clips.html

that he recognises the net's value as an information resource and commercial tool, and relishes the irony of using it to communicate his own criticism of the medium. His main concern is the danger of people 'playing their lives away with too many toys' by wasting enormous amounts of time on the trivial, a criticism that extends to the output of the other mass media, and which any reader of 'Fahrenheit 451' will understand.

You can see him here too: http://www.raybradbury.com/at_home_clips.html According to him we've never had censorship or book burnings in the US either.... and he doesn't consider books being banned from libraries (including his own) to be censorship. Yet at the same time he says Fahrenheit 451 is about how TV is replacing literature and making people morons.

"It's been a dream of science fiction writers everywhere"

Not really. Unless by "dream" you mean "surreal nightmare." (Or, to be fair, unless by "science fiction writers everywhere" you mean "some science fiction writers in some places.")

Not being a scientist, I've always found Kim Stanley Robinson a bit, um, stupifyingly dull. Doesn't anyone remember Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles? The man had a healthy respect for / terror of these ideas.

The far left is not exactly know for being accommodating of free speech, unless it's speech they agree with.

Here's what the Man himself has to say.

This is the same Ray Bradbury who was afraid to fly in airplanes until recently. Could we get him on a spaceship?

No, he's referring to Fahrenheit 451 -- you know, where the firemen are the ones starting the fires, not putting them out... Mix this with a little cut-throat capitalism, and you have a conspiracy theory (a damn good one at that)! :^)

Police say the felon heated his books to
200C to disable the rights management chip.

The chips work up to an extreme of around 105C, which works out to be 221F (cool converter here ).

All they have to do is double the extreme, and then the book will burn prior to the chip.

I wouldn't have known this if not for Ray Bradbury . Thanks!