Bradbury was adamant the the story is not about censorship, it is about "The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little..." (from The Golden Apples of the Sun)

When directly asked about Fahrenheit 451, he responded

I wasn't worried about freedom, I was worried about people being turned into morons by TV. We've never had censorship in this country, we've never burned books...

Fahrenheit's not about censorship, it's about the moronic influence of popular culture through local TV news, the proliferation of giant screens and the bombardment of factoids. All the popular programs on TV, the competition programs, they don't give you anything but factoids. They tell you when Napoleon was born, but not who he was. So it doesn't matter about the date. You should never memorize dates, to hell with it. So we moved into this period of history that I described in Fahrenheit 50 years ago.

Bradbury on Censorship/Television

But don't many intellectuals have misinterpreted that the book is about censorship, and Ray has some choice words to them as well:

Weller: Have you encountered academic misinterpretation of your work?

Bradbury: I was lecturing at Cal Fullerton once and they misinterpreted Fahrenheit 451, and after about half an hour of arguing with them, telling them that they were wrong, I said, “Fuck you.” I've never used that word before, and I left the classroom.

Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews

_{Note: I pulled the sources for these quotes from an answer to a similar question I had answered on Literature.SE}

Bradbury was adamant the the story is not about censorship, it is about "The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little..." (from The Golden Apples of the Sun)

When directly asked about Fahrenheit 451, he responded

I wasn't worried about freedom, I was worried about people being turned into morons by TV. We've never had censorship in this country, we've never burned books...

Fahrenheit's not about censorship, it's about the moronic influence of popular culture through local TV news, the proliferation of giant screens and the bombardment of factoids. All the popular programs on TV, the competition programs, they don't give you anything but factoids. They tell you when Napoleon was born, but not who he was. So it doesn't matter about the date. You should never memorize dates, to hell with it. So we moved into this period of history that I described in Fahrenheit 50 years ago.

Bradbury on Censorship/Television

But many intellectuals have misinterpreted that the book is about censorship, and Ray has some choice words to them as well:

Weller: Have you encountered academic misinterpretation of your work?

Bradbury: I was lecturing at Cal Fullerton once and they misinterpreted Fahrenheit 451, and after about half an hour of arguing with them, telling them that they were wrong, I said, “Fuck you.” I've never used that word before, and I left the classroom.

Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews

_{Note: I pulled the sources for these quotes from an answer to a similar question I had answered on Literature.SE}