Modern censorship isn't about stopping the flow of information, that would be impossible, it's about making the barriers of access to it so high that users can't easily find it.  Censorship (High barriers, privilege-based production benefits) exists on a spectrum, opposite from peer collaboration (Low barriers, commons-based production benefits).  It's relationship to artistic and technological innovation is not clear (Metaphor dies without or with too much prudence and censorship) but the popul