Does anyone believe that the nature of censorship on the internet actually makes a situation worse? Maybe during tv days censorship worked because a story was b

Does anyone believe that the nature of censorship on the internet actually makes a situation worse? Maybe during tv days censorship worked because a story was blacked out completely, but on the internet the fact that a story is blacked out can become a story. It may be argued that this is an attempt to make more gradual the shift to a more free and open society but isn't it a step backwards?