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turned new example from one massive run-on sentence into several smaller ones with improved grammar (and less obvious assumptions about the correctness of anyone's politics)
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* Hollywood got its start because numerous filmmakers moved there in an effort to avoid Thomas Edison's iron grip on film patents and his licensing fees. The MPAA was formed as an effort to push back against government censorship. Nowadays, it's the big movie business that's pushing to strengthen intellectual property enforcement and censorship with proposals such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOPA SOPA] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACTA ACTA].
* Jeff Gerstmann was fired because of the corrupt state of game journalism, and the cause of his firing was brutally censored by his former employer. He went to found his own site, where he went on to found his own site, drawing many viewers for claiming to stand against this corruption. The next decade when another story of journalistic corruption breaks, he's brutally censoring any discussion of it and defending the corrupt.
* William "Billy D" Usher created his famousthe ''One Angry Gamer'' website to fight back against the rampant and blatant left-wing political activism that he felt had taken over the gaming news media,. until saidWhen activismgaming lostjournalism steamapparently aftermoved pushingto awaya toomore manycentrist viewersposition, then he then started grasping at the tiniest of straws in order to stay relevant,. to He eventually reached the the point of ''manufacturing'' controversies and essentially becoming a terrible ''right''-wing activist writingwho awrote primarily angry political rants punctuated with only the occasional decent gaming news article once in a blue moon, the rest being angry political rants.
 
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