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LudwigNagasena ◴[] No.40715974[source]
Those people would ban printing press and jail Gutenberg to protect the children.
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1. maxwell ◴[] No.40718091[source]
No, the center of European power needed printing presses for their own propaganda.

Instead the center of European power banned heretical works with the Index Librorum Prohibitorum and executed heretics like Giordano Bruno, Jan Hus, Michael Servetus, Aonio Paleario, and Lucilio Vanini. Even if they were already dead, like John Wycliffe.