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Social media has existed for centuries, in the old days it was village rumors.


It's said that people have known about the fear of Satanism since the Middle Ages. How did ancient Satanists communicate? We all know that modern Satanists communicate through the dark web or things like Telegram and WhatsApp.


Not at anything resembling the instantaneous global reach of today.


The world was different then, but printed press and later the telegraph certainly helped.

Or centuries in between where folks used to go village to village telling tales for a few coins.

Meaning there was always something kind of widespread, even if it wasn't at the scale of computer networks connected world wild.


It's fine if you like that definition, but that is not what we currently use when talking about "social media bans".




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