I was specifically thinking of the censorship of mass media which took place in the west from the 20s-90s, which enforced a "family values" kind of christian mo

I was specifically thinking of the censorship of mass media which took place in the west from the 20s-90s, which enforced a "family values" kind of christian moralism. Prior to the 20s, mass media wasn't particularly censored (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Code_Hollywood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Code_Hollywood): USA : * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hays_Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hays_Code * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commiss... UK : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Chamberlain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Chamberlain > From 1737 to 1968, the Lord Chamberlain had the power to decide which plays would be granted a licence for performance; this meant that he had the capacity to censor theatre at his pleasure. UK : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_nasty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_nasty > To assist local authorities in identifying obscene films, the Director of Public Prosecutions released a list of 72 films the office believed to violate the Obscene Publications Act 1959.