REPRESENTATIVE Higgins saying what we all thought the plan was out loud with the attack on public libraries - they want to replace them all with church libraries.
Theocrats get the :gulag: .
REPRESENTATIVE Higgins saying what we all thought the plan was out loud with the attack on public libraries - they want to replace them all with church libraries.
Theocrats get the :gulag: .
they didn't burn Wycliffe at the stake. i am mistaken about his bible in that they did order it burned---they're just still around so i did extrapolate from that.
ill delete it because Wycliffe is a bad example but i was more commenting about relative impact of printed & non-printed books, and how much more important censorship was during the reformation.
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i obv didn't explain it well but the biggest difference is reactionary vs. proactive censor, "publish anything you like but we'll come after you if it makes a stir" vs. the modern pre-approval that people think when they hear 'censorship'
which is mostly a function of state capacity anyway. the catholic church would've liked to stop everyone writing before the pope looked at it but parrallel state-creation was a hard and long process.
just don't want people thinking the catholic church was medieval 1984, not in any way a good institution