ComradeUseless

Sudden is relative. To some is years, some decades some more.

Why, because then it was new and the majority were still hooked on conventional media. When the majority shifted online, then that itself is the reason.

When a new medium comes, it will be the same. At first it will be free for all, then it will become regulated and censored.

Tallest_Skil

It’s not sudden and anyone who thinks it is has been paying no attention.

Diogenes_The_Cynic

Nobody builds a knife without a handle. Its one of the basis of the laws of robotics that Asimov wrote about. The ability to censor, or to infiltrate was always there and you didn't know enough to notice it.

Its more overt now since the code is sloppily made and has greater complexity.