I’ve never understood this self-undermining logic in radical Islam, old-time Catholicism, Chinese Communism, and other totalitarian states: doesn’t the admission of the need for censorship itself imply the system is so fragile as to be threatened by a single dissident voice? (Also, if God existed, and felt that heresy merited death, he/she could probably manage to carry out the sentence without enlisting a lynch mob, motivated by a monetary reward.)
