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Copyright has always been a cover story for legitimizing censorship, ever since it was about preventing people from printing the wrong kind of bible. Of course
by __MatrixMan__ 2y ago
Copyright has always been a cover story for legitimizing censorship, ever since it was about preventing people from printing the wrong kind of bible. Of course they're using it that way.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Copyright has always been a cover story for legitimizing censorship, ever since it was about preventing people from printing the wrong kind of bible Source?
- esperent 2y agohttps://wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_the_Bible https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_the_Bible Plenty of info here starting from the section From the Printing Press until the Revelation.
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright > The origin of copyright law in most European countries lies in efforts by the church and governments to regulate and control the output of printers. I'll confess to assuming that that's why they wanted to regulate the output of printers. But what non-cenaorship reason could they possibly have had for wanting to do so?
- strathmeyer 2y agoWhen someone tells you something, they're they source.