A clever way to sensor news, films and literature is to subsidize it. Make sure the subsidies are big enough to be important for the news and art producers, and state agents can be virtually guaranteed that content will be formed according to their wishes.
Once people realize that their income is dependent on the good will of the subsidizing agent, they will automatically start to self censor. Opinions and views that might be viewed negatively by the agents will be toned down or removed.
These days, censorship is done through subsidies. That way no one notices what's going on. Everybody think that we are served a well balanced diet of art and news. What better way to censor content than to do it in a way that escapes most people's attention?
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