[Thurnscoe_OWL]

I think I agree with Thurny's understanding of the outcome of the 'Great Censorship War' 

It should be known as "The first great censorship war" because there will no doubt be another shift of the goalposts in the not too distant future.

It's a bit like the Germans and the 1st world war. The rest of the world knew they would do something again and named the first world war "the first world war" in 1919, a good 20 years before the start of the second world war. Not that I'm comparing certain people to ze germans or the National Socialist German Workers' Party

Actually the First World War was called the Great War until WW2 came along, then it was named WW1.

I was out by a year but ultimately, my original point is correct

Far from waiting until the Second World War had started, the First World War was rather pessimistically named as such in 1918.
 
British Officer Lieutenant-Colonel Charles à Court Repington recorded in his diary for 10 Sep 1918 that he met with a Major Johnstone of Harvard University to discuss what historians should call the war. Repington said it was then referred to as The War, 'but that this could not last'. They agreed that 'To call it The German War was too much flattery for the Boche.' Repington concludes: 'I suggested The World War as a shade better title, and finally we mutually agreed to call it The First World War in order to prevent the millennium folk from forgetting that the history of the world was the history of war.'  Between the wars most people did refer to the war as the Great War, even though that had originally referred to the Napoleonic War. In the US, it was ‘The World War’.
 
Time magazine announced that 'World War Two began last week' as early as September 1939. A few weeks after the war broke out, Duff Cooper published a book of his speeches from October 1938 to August 1939 called 'The Second World War'. In 1942, President Roosevelt wanted an alternative name. He rejected 'Teutonic Plague' and 'Tyrants' War' and settled on 'The War of Survival,' but it didn't take. The US officially named the war 'World War Two' only in 1945. WW2 was often referred to as The Second Great War in its early days - and the phrase was in use at least as late as January 1959. 

http://qi.com/infocloud/the-first-world-war