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Early mass printing was strictly controlled by kings
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The romanticized dawn of the printing press was instantly suffocated by paranoid royalty. European monarchs were so terrified of peasants actually reading dissenting opinions that they immediately passed laws making it a severe criminal offense to operate a printing press without their direct bureaucratic permission.
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