Many people published anonymous pamphlets in the run-up to the American revolution. Apparently there was little effort to censor these tracts. Or perhaps it was simply impossible to censor them in a time long before the internet and Google.
Any way you look at it, censorship can only be implemented by the people with the power to implement it. And they generally are the people who are being written about. Censorship does not protect democracy, it preserves tyranny.
Many people published anonymous pamphlets in the run-up to the American revolution. Apparently there was little effort to censor these tracts. Or perhaps it was simply impossible to censor them in a time long before the internet and Google.
Any way you look at it, censorship can only be implemented by the people with the power to implement it. And they generally are the people who are being written about. Censorship does not protect democracy, it preserves tyranny.