OK, so…
I did a search for an image of a printing press to accompany a comparison of the destruction of the printing press to the tactics being used by media companies as their attempt to clean up their forums – by "burning" entire "conservative views" channels or depriving them of GoogleAd revenues. (Meanwhile, the world is awash with porn and violence.)
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After reading this New Yorker article, I wondered how the "age of internet freedom of speech" turned into the "age of censorship."
I'm seriously theorizing that it is media's way of BEGGING FOR LEGAL GUIDANCE to help them sort through the garbage that freedom of speech pukes out. Perhaps it isn't conservative views at all they want to get off of their media platforms. It might well be the LIBERAL GARBAGE the porn, pedo, and radical revolution that they want to be rid of and can't afford the backlash from gruesome characters.
Where did I get that idea? well, from a quick read about the REFORMATION and – Martin Luther, a rabid anti-semetic.
As I dug on that one, I found the book "Out of the Storm"
You just can't make this stuff upbut there it is
And the times we have found ourselves in – is just THAT. Another REFORMATION.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/30/the-dark-side-of-techno-utopianism
https://archive.is/RTWz2
A Critic at Large – September 30, 2019 Issue
[this article talks about printing press and the misinformation that came from various printers, deliberately or accidentally, and how the internet was/is going thru a similar threshing out process what is free speech, what if anything should be regulated how out of control it gets]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation
Reformers and their opponents made heavy use of inexpensive pamphlets as well as vernacular Bibles using the relatively new printing press, so there was swift movement of both ideas and documents.
The Reformation was a triumph of literacy and the new printing press.[27][b][18]
[29] Luther's translation of the Bible into German was a decisive moment in the spread of literacy, and stimulated as well the printing and distribution of religious books and pamphlets. From 1517 onward, religious pamphlets flooded Germany and much of Europe
Each year drew new theologians to embrace the Reformation and participate in the ongoing, European-wide discussion about faith. The pace of the Reformation proved unstoppable already by 1520.
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Out of the Storm: The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther Paperback –
International Edition, May 6, 2008
Martin Luther changed Europe and, through Europe, the world. It was he who finally exposed the myth of a unified Latin Christendom, in fact only held together by crusades, heresy hunts, Inquisition, and priestly magic. Though not the first radical thinker to challenge papal pretensions and the doctrines they were founded on, by his defiance Luther created the biggest cause célèbre of the age. But this renegade monk did not just split Europe into rival Protestant and Catholic camps.
By urging Christians to read and interpret the Bible for themselves, he gave a religious boost to that emancipation of the individual we associate with the Renaissance. By putting men and women in charge of their own destiny he made a cultural impact which is incalculable.
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