I never said it was the government, in fact I even specifically stated unwritten social norms. It's interesting that a straw-man is being used to attack the arg

I never said it was the government, in fact I even specifically stated unwritten social norms. It's interesting that a straw-man is being used to attack the argument. Society is a complex system. The west has soft censorship via control systems. If you can't see any now, that is fine. But we can deduct they exist from logic. Here's an example: We can recognize the old ones. US newspapers and schools had effective censorship of, for example, the struggle of gay people in the US. The struggle was there, but it wasn't talked about. No matter the mechanisms to achieve this, it is effective soft censoring. While this doesn't exist anymore, it would be unreasonable to think we don't have similar blind sides now (I see plenty, but... that is neither here nor there, I'm going off logic)