- [?] [What forms did government censorship typically take before mass communication tech like the printing press? Are there any non-Greek examples of opposition to this?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/scvkbq/what_forms_did_government_censorship_typically/) - I've been thinking a lot lately about the tension between free speech and censorship and other than a brief mention of Socrates (which somehow feels like muddying the waters?) I wasn't able to find anything about the history of this tension. Do we know anything about ancient governments performing censorship of communications? Was that a thing? Or was it so normal and expected no one even really cared? - based on [this tweet about free speech vs censorship](https://twitter.com/Ada_Palmer/status/1486037751510224903) discussion with [[Ada Palmer]]