&gt;No, it was, in fact, not prevented from being published. The first two sentences of the article are &quot;I launched a book this week and I went Indie with it. Indie means I released it on Amazon via Kindle Direct Publishing.&quot;<p>Prevented from being published via established channels, then. The analogy still holds, because in the 1950s you could still publish content considered communist in photocopied zines.