An excellent article. I'm anti-censorship to the marrow of my bones (even censorship of works I personally find abhorrent).

One interesting distinction between the US and the UK during this period is that whilst the US did indeed have government mandated censorship, the approach in the UK was rather different. The British Board of Film Censors (later the British Board of Film Classification) was and is a film industry funded organisation entirely independent of the UK government (despite it poking its nose in from time to time, especially in early years) that has constantly consulted on public attitudes of what is and isn't acceptable and tried to reflect them. That said, it hasn't always succeeded, and there have been times where people have had to stand up to them. I myself was involved in campaigning of this kind during a very restrictive period of BBFC history in the 1990s, when the board was under the whims of the notorious James Ferman.

Here's an article of mine about film censorship in Britain, if you're interested. Thankfully, today in the UK, the kinds of nonsense I detail here has all but disappeared. :)

https://medium.com/framerated/ban-this-sick-filth-a-brief-history-of-uk-film-censorship-d5b8aadbddb2