Title: Censorship Then and Now

Okay, everything you've always thought is right. That makes it convenient to move on to something new. The factual discussion of the metadata colllection program and the FISA court doesn't really make good copy here, because it's too compressed to be accurate and too small a part of the overall picture to be worth the space you're giving it. But if you've always thought all this, and we don't have to be weighed down with small details or phony versions of THE history of censorship, what is the central idea? Let's try a draft that leaves all that decoration on the cutting room floor, and goes straight to the new idea. No general rhetoric, only the most immediately material facts, and a single central idea, of yours not someone else's, whose development we can watch and whose consequences we can ponder.