That's just false.
China had their FW since 1997 in various forms. In their very effective form since 2006.
And that's just China.
There was always pressure to censor/block/filter/control the Internet.
The norm is what people make it. The same goes for rules. And narrowness and so on.
Currently, people are dumbfuck dimwits, like they used to be. But the issues used to be simpler too. Communism bad, world war bad, etc.
That's just false.
China had their FW since 1997 in various forms. In their very effective form since 2006.
And that's just China.
There was always pressure to censor/block/filter/control the Internet.
The norm is what people make it. The same goes for rules. And narrowness and so on.
Currently, people are dumbfuck dimwits, like they used to be. But the issues used to be simpler too. Communism bad, world war bad, etc.