r/RoughRomanMemes

Because they are barbarians they can't understand how great it tastes

For reference, the person who wrote this iteration of the tale I’m using, was the ancient Roman poet Ovid, whose poems often focused on characters questioning authority, and painting those in power in a bad light,

And because there poems often focused on such themes and meanings, the destroyer of the Roman republic, emperor Augustus, banished Ovid to the edges of the empire, to silence them, so they can no longer spread such dissent to power through their works.

Now, 2000 years later, let me ask you, why does such censorship sound so familiar?