> There are large groups of people who believe that censorship like this validates a worldview in which powerful interests are censoring true information in order to maintain control. It's similar to the Streisand Effect or "Banned in Boston" but for belief rather than attention.

Similarly, there are large groups of people that believe there are large groups of people who believe that censorship like this validates a worldview in which powerful interests are censoring true information in order to maintain control. The degree to which the respective beliefs of these two groups of people are actually correct, is unknown.

I suspect that the group of people that believe this is considerably smaller than the other two groups, at least in Western cultures.

I believe this phenomenon is (at least in part) what Hindus refer to as Maya.

https://www.hinduwebsite.com/hinduism/essays/maya.asp