Common [CENSORED]: The Ultimate Free Speech Coffee Table Gag Book: Made from a First Edition copy of Common Sense by Thomas Paine

This heavily redacted edition of Thomas Paine's seminal work is the The Ultimate Free Speech Coffee-Table Gag-Book, begging the question: Would a revolution against a dire tyranny even be possible during a time when ideas that contradict the-powers-that-be are prevented from being shared among the people in the first place?<br/><br/>*PREMIUM COLOR EDITION*<br/><br/>In 1776, Common Sense was the first viral mass-communications event in American history. Tho’ the controversial pamphlet was quickly banned in England, the printing presses of the 13 Colonies were out of King George III’s immediate reach, immune to his would-be censorship. Hundreds of thousands of copies flooded the states during a period when top-selling publications would sell only a couple thousand at best. Common Sense articulated the need for American independence in a way that resonated resoundingly with the common man. Its words rang aloud in bars & town squares, cementing in the public sentiment a desire to separate from the tyranny of English rule.<br/><br/>Within months of its release, America officially declared Independence from Britain : A humble pamphlet had fundamentally altered the course of history. Having witnessed the impact of Common Sense’s virality, the founding fathers recognized the power of the free, uninhibited exchange of ideas, & enshrined the 1st Amendment into law to protect speech for posterity.<br/><br/>Now, in the 21st Century, the printing press has been replaced by the digital commons of social media, the reading aloud of important messages in public spaces replaced by Retweets. But with the convenience & instant access to information in the digital age come great potential dangers. Every post to big tech platforms is subject to the invisible hand of remote, stealth censorship. Without you even knowing it, unelected petty-tyrants collaborate with governments to circumvent our free speech. They shadowban controversial statements, deboost inconvenient facts & deplatform valuable voices of everyday people whose insights that have the potential to be paradigm altering: People just like Thomas Paine.<br/><br/>This book was created using high-resolution public domain pictures of the pages of a First Edition copy of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" from the UPenn Library’s Colenda Digital Collection.<br/><br/>Both funny and poignant, the absurdity of flipping through a mostly redacted book will have you chuckling to offset the horror of realizing the potential dangers of mass censorship in the digital age.<br/><br/>THE FOUR AVAILABLE OF THIS BOOK ARE AS FOLLOWS:<br/>Premium Color Paperback - $18<br/>Color Paperback- $15<br/>Black & White Paperback- $13<br/>Kindle - $3<br/><br/>An uncensored version, displaying the full original text as seen in 1776 is available under the title "Common Sense: FIRST EDITION REVIVED" in both Premium Color Paperback and Kindle formats:<br/>https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C2S5MVTD