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From Socrates to Solidarność, from Galileo to Trump's Twitter account, from the ban on the "Lady Chatterly" and from Monika Maron to Sensitivity Reading. Not least in the face of Cancel Culture, filter bubbles, fake news and hate speech, censorship is a virulent topic, not to say: a perennial burner. A journey through time from case to case leads through centuries and across continents and shows what has been done to protect people from supposed or actually "perishable" influences - for moral, political or religious reasons. Books like people ended up at the stake, artists, scientists and political dissidents had to flee abroad or live underground. Others elevated the censorship of their works to a quality feature, made the repression public, or subjected it with cunning and tactical skill. Not only texts, but also pictures, sculptors, songs and photos have been censored and will be. The legitimate debate about where the boundaries of freedom of expression and press run has recently picked up speed again. Today, digital communication is creating a new form of public in which private players repose the question of censorship. In more than twenty dramatic case representations, authors illuminate the motifs, function and effects of censorship, but also creative resistance to them.