Besides direct internet censorship, which is aimed at prohibiting access to specific web sites technically, there is a indirect censorship as well: the fear of suffering disadvantages just because one is consuming unpleasant contents.

• Journalists are not able to inform themselves freely
  Internet-censorship is impeding free journalism. In the scope of investigations journalists must be able to access censored contents as well, because they have to judge whether these contents are relevant to the public or not.
• Citizens are not able to form
  their own opinions
  In the real world there is usually not only one single truth - but many. Due to direct censorship or fear of reprisals citizens full of age are not able to get all the necessary information in order to judge the facts properly.
• Just retrieving unpleasant contents is punished
  The "Operation Himmel" (operation heaven) was praised in Germany as a big success of the investigators: But just a few of the suspects were actually guilty and the short clicking on web sites destroyed the social existence of innocents. Moreover, trying to access censored web sites in the future will be recorded automatically, reported and punished in Germany. Remark: Even accessing contents which just appear to be illegal is punishable. The visiting of indirect web sites is kept under surveillance and blocked .
• Anti-censorship-services are selling your data
  Beware of anti-censorship-services: There are some which are collecting and selling your data: probably even to censors!