https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/03/how_to_bypass_the_online_censors.html
Something similar developed in the USSR during the period of heavily controlled speech. Wikipedia: Samizdat was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader. This grassroots practice to evade official Soviet censorship was fraught with danger, as harsh punishments were meted out to people caught possessing or copying censored materials.