The first ever sources of censorship came from the Church in the western world in trying to control the knowledge circulated through an emerging print culture.
A necessary element of free society is freedom of speech, respect for the value of the individual, and the importance of science and reason. Postmodernism seeks to eradicate all of it.
In a secular country like India, we have only witnessed a slew of silly fatwas issued by questionable Muftis, which have been of no help in bringing about reformation in Islam.