John Stuart Mill advocated that public opinion should be controlled.

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John Stuart Mill believed in the importance of a free and open exchange of ideas, including those that go against prevailing public opinion. He argued that the suppression of dissenting views only leads to intellectual stagnation and a lack of progress. In his work "On Liberty," he famously wrote, "The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error."

John Stuart Mill Advocated That Public Opinion Should Be Controlled