In a democratic system, writers enjoy a fair degree of freedom and a large audience, often relayed by the media through popular literary programs in which they comment on their own texts, explaining their source and context. Despite the occasional lawsuit brought against them for plagiarism, invasion of privacy, or a few legal actions for racist, anti-Semitic, or homophobic comments or comments that undermine the rule of law, in the creative field, novelists and documentary writers today have a relatively protected status, as shown by recent research into censorship by Anna Arzoumanov. Nevertheless, this freedom does not exempt the author from a form of individual and collective responsibility.