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title: "4 Censorship Works Quotes by 1 author"
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> [“In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the 21st century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/in-the-past-censorship-worked-by-blocking-the-flow-of-information-in/)

[Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/)

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> [“In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/in-the-past-censorship-worked-by-blocking-the-flow-of-information-in-2/)

[Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/)

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> [Censorship no longer works by hiding information from you; censorship works by flooding you with immense amounts of misinformation, of irrelevant information,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/censorship-no-longer-works-by-hiding-information-from-you-censorship/)

[Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/478/yuval-noah-harari-100_censorship_censorship-no-longer-works-by-hiding-inf_2715974.jpg)

> [“In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/in-the-past-censorship-worked-by-blocking-the-flow-of-information-in-3/)

[Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35b/yuval-noah-harari-100_blocking_in-the-past-censorship-worked-by-blockin_2786788.jpg)

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