Then they make it out-out. The change doesn’t get much attention because the funding is already in place and “think of the children”.
Then they add political thought crimes to the filters.
Then they make it so you can’t opt-out.
Here we have a telecom service provider law, which states, among other things:
ARTICLE 57. - Network neutrality. Prohibitions. Service Providers shall not:
a) Block, interfere, discriminate, hinder, degrade or restrict the use, sending, reception, offering or access to any content, application, service or protocol except by court order or explicit request of the user.
PayPal, Booking.com and many more are illegal due to data protection or business guild reasons.
Netflix, Prime Video, radios, podcasts etc are subjected to censorship by TV&Radio broadcasting regulator and are required to register for a license.
Social media with user base over certain number are required to be licensed.
The world mostly caught up but there’s still some way to go.