This happened all the time, all over the US.<p>Felt like authoritarian heavy handed red-faced response to early anonymous publishing of tracts and pamphlets, all over again.<p>Good read starting with the 1500s here:<p><pre><code>  THE IDEA OF A FREE PRESS:  
  THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND ITS UNRULY LEGACY</code></pre>
—  <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldcat.org&#x2F;wcpa&#x2F;servlet&#x2F;org.oclc.lac.ui.DialABookServlet?oclcnum=63277699" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldcat.org&#x2F;wcpa&#x2F;servlet&#x2F;org.oclc.lac.ui.DialABo...</a><p>I was part of an early ISP (1993 - 1997). There was this kind of &quot;insolent&quot; free speech vs. fumbling authoritarian quashing all the time.<p>Our ISP policy: Don&#x27;t like what you have to say, but will defend your right to say it. And we, not teens but in our twenties, thought this new power for the individual voices was indeed &quot;hilarious&quot; — and awesome.<p>I often miss the truly self-published pre-ad-driven ecosystem days of $19&#x2F;month for a dial up modem and your own web site.<p>&#x2F;&#x2F; As it happens, in addition to offering both web hosting and shell, I also invented dynamic DNS, with connection event driven mapping from Portmasters to a custom DNS host, to point your username.isp.com to your own dynamic dialup IP address so you could host whatever website you wanted on your own box, not ours.