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In the 90s censorship was targeting music and video games, similarly from both the right and the left.  Book bans - same thing.  I worked in a bookstore in the 90s  and we had to deal with calls to ban books from all sorts of groups, our history has been a constant struggle to push back against government overreach in order to protect free expression.  The internet is simply the latest battleground and with new techniques to ban content without directly banning it, by going after payment processors and removing anonymity - we're not banning content, you just have to report all your purchases of it to the government, which of course effectively bans it.   

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Oh even now, we're far, far more free than we ever were in the 90s. But we seem to be steadily regressing back there, in all the worst ways. All the stifling social conformity, but none of the economic boom.