I think it's very interesting that a lot of people think it's a book on book censorship, because Bradbury himself stated numerous times that he meant it to be specifically about how television can rot your brain. As a result, I think a lot of us go away from the book with a different message than the author intended.

I read somewhere that he was inspired to write it because he saw a young woman walking down the street with a transistor radio next to her ear, and he thought this was terrible for some reason? I don't know, maybe he patronisingly assumed she was listening to a mainstream soap opera rather than a science programme or something, it's a strangely anti-technology position for a science fiction writer to take. I feel like he mistook the medium for the message, as both books and television can be either enlightening or manufactured garbage; his is a doubly mixed message considering that he had his own TV show.