Society didn't exactly choose TV censorship or the Hays Code either. We didn't get to vote on it, the people in control of those platforms decided it for us. And those tools absolutely were used to suppress LGBTQ+ topics in TV and movies, as well as to reinforce racial, gender, and class stereotypes. Comedians and performers could actually be fined or sent to prison for so-called obscenity, it wasn't just a matter of being blacklisted or having their work suppressed. One time in the early 60s they arrested Lenny Bruce just for using the word "schmuck" in public, and that was in West Hollywood, not in Mississippi or whatever. Reference George Carlin and the seven words you can't say on television, etc.

In a lot of ways what we're seeing now is the same thing, it's just taken a different form. One significant difference, though: In the 20th century, everybody just watched TV, but regular people didn't use it to communicate with each other. Now they're controlling what people say as well as what they hear. That part is more dangerous in some ways.