Statistically, real threats are rare, but ambition and corruption are common. Overwhelmingly, the purpose of censorship is not the protection of national security, but the protection of individual careers. That's not ideology, but mathematics. Because there are very, very, few true national secrets, but a huge amounts of information that someone would like to bury for one reason or another.

Seth Finkelstein

I'll also note that "nothing is original" is probably not original. After all, Goethe once said "Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of them again", https://www.inspirationalstories.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-...