It certainly would not be a free society. Though as with all things human, all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again: "Charles II had r

It certainly would not be a free society. Though as with all things human, all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again: "Charles II had re-turned to the English throne in 1660 and was appalled at the state of printing in his realm. Seditious, irreligious, pernicious, and scandalous books and pamphlets flooded the streets of London (among them the works of Milton and Hobbes)...[He] required that all intended publications be registered with the government-approved Stationers’ Company, thus giving the king his “royal prerogative”—and by extension, giving the Stationers the ultimate say in what got printed and what did not. ...it is not surprising to learn that the 1662 Act only met with partial success. One gets the sense that London in the late seventeenth century was a place where definitions of morality were highly subjective and authority was exercised in extremely uneven fashion." https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/17219056/677787.pdf https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/17219056/677787....