They have been doing it since Guttenberg invented his press. Before that, government used the licensed pre-approved scripted theatrical performance to control public opinion; directing attention, shaping the desires, generally keeping NPCs between the dotted developmental lines.
Nation states who do not control the information domain can not last as nations. They are immediately subverted by a host of predators and parasites.
"Censorship" is not about stopping people from masturbating themselves to death, it has always been about power and protection of the sleeping population from deadly mind viruses which could otherwise be introduced by the adversary in books or movies. Such materials could and did drive whole cities and towns to madness and genocide. Government controlled information.
We are, most of us unable to to recognize the unseen forces at work producing our spontaneous decisions, and without we enter the world of the Spirt we can't.
"We live in a material world" is cult propaganda, hiding the source of all riches, the world of imagination, the place ideas come from, the domai n of Spirit, available freely to all, the greatest power in the universe.
Other cult temptations, drugs, sexual perversions and fake politics have greater appeal to a soul- damaged, harassed and incurious population; us.
Most of us have been exposed to MSM media mind poisoning from birth we are educated in cult curriculum in our schools so limited, conditioned and reconciled to our slavery we may imagine ourselves free.
If we don't life what's on HBO we have a 100,000 entertainment options. Cult controlled freedom means pepsi or coke, Tums or Rolaids, or Certs, two mints in one.
The world of matter ends, and the world of the Spirit continues.