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Interesting enough, media that has to work around censorship is often more interesting. Restrictions breed creativity: East German (political) jokes were far more spicy than West German (political) jokes.

There was a French group, Oulipo, that imposed weird restrictions on themselves in order to reproduce this effect. See eg 'A Void', a novel without the letter 'e'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void



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