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[–] TheRealMaestro 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The Internet was not conceived as a mass medium, but a tangle of small media. I still remember the Internet up to the late 00s, before a few Web sites could seize hegemony; it was a very different place. (Indeed, my displeasure with technology's course in this decade are a subject which I might elaborate into a Voat submission.) Censorship is rather through obscurity as so many depend upon the major Web sites, than through ineffective explicit blocks.
[–] srgmpdns ago
Gulliver’s Travels was written as a satire because of the censorship of the times:
http://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/05/02/swift-satire-censorship/
Even though Swift worked as a censor himself.