People misunderstand totalitarianism as a cruel, top-down phenomenon of imagined thugs with guns and torture camps.
It is instead, the result of zealous moral idealists who actively want to “protect people”.
https://www.pairagraph.com/dialogue/07d855107abf428c97583312e1e738fe?46
Reread Bradbury's "Farenheit 451." It's the NPC busybody scolds who demand the censorship. Bradbury knew what was up.