[oberstein]

There was no censorship on saying a lot of things the puritans didn't like said, but the consequences of saying them could be your life. Nowadays the consequences for saying what you can't say are merely limited to loss of job and any future career in your field and the only media exposure being to solidify how evil you are. See: https://handleshaus.wordpress.com/2013/12/26/bullied-and-bad...

[kirsebaer]

In 20th century America there was also explicit, legal censorship of stuff that would not be a problem today. People were sent to prison for months or years, but this is rarely talked about. See Eugene Debs, Lenny Bruce, William Baird, etc.