He nodded and pointed down the street to a coffee shop just down the road as a suggested destination. Thoth was simply too kind to just pull Philotes along, even if it had been mostly decided, down the sidewalk.
“The more curious part of banning things... anything, in actuality,” he said as they walked, “that is frequently lost on those who go to such great lengths to censor others...” he paused to let an elderly woman slowly make her way across in front of them. “Is that it tends to make what is being banned that much more attractive to those who are told they can't have it.”
It was a fantastic. The innate curious nature of human beings was to know what it was that we were told they couldn't have access to, and they would go to bizarre lengths to discover what they were told they couldn't have. In terms of banned books, they became far more desirable once they were banned and were read with far more passion than they might have been before someone got up-in-arms over their content.
Which caused conversations to be had and new things to be learned. All of which were things Thoth encouraged.