[serf]

passwords were a foreign concept to early computing, but you presume censorship was taking place?

it took awhile of corporatization and profit-shaping before censorship on computers really took off in any meaningful way.

...but it wasn't for any reasons other than market broadening and regulation compliance.

[perching_aix]

I think you're not taking what I wrote nearly literally enough. Really, you should be showing me diagrams of the Von Neumann architecture missing a censorship module. Maybe even gasp at the omission of it in Babbage's letters.

But why stop there? Let's bring out the venerable Abacus! We could have riveting discussions about how societies even back then, thousands of years ago, designated certain language as foul, and had rules about not using profanities in various settings. Ah, if only they knew they were actually victims of Orwellian censorship, and a globalist conspiracy.

[DonHopkins]

It's even possible to spell out BOOBS on an abacus.