Yeah we have seen this before: When the printing press arrived in the 15th–16th centuries, it terrified those who held centralized control over knowledge and narrative, chiefly the Church and monarchies. Suddenly, ideas (especially Reformation pamphlets, vernacular Bibles, or critiques of authority) could spread fast, cheaply, and widely without gatekeepers approving every copy. The reaction was swift: pre-publication censorship, indices of banned books (like the Catholic Church's Index Librorum Prohibitorum from 1559 onward), printer licenses, burnings of texts, and executions for 'heretical' publishing. The core fear wasn't just 'misinformation', it was loss of monopoly on 'truth,' the risk that unfiltered access would erode institutional power, religious unity, and social order. So, go fuck yourself!