The software that comes with a computer typically has a "Terms of Use" forbidding anybody from reading the software, insisting only the computer itself is allowed. Learning and understanding about the purchased computer and its software by reading the machine language of the software is typically forbidden by its "Terms of Use". That is exactly like translating an article or book written in a foreign language, however, it is legally twisted by the "Terms of Use" into an evil self-education termed as "reverse engineering".
The "Terms of Use" forbids the purchaser of (or anyone else implementing) the computer or computer software from learning and understanding about it. Is that censorship? Is that the Ministry of Truth of Big Brother in the novel 1984? Is that like the temporary age discrimination children tolerate when told they are forbidden until older? Nope. It is simply "Intellectual Property": legally forbidden knowledge.
By the means of "Intellectual Property" (forbidden thoughts), "Copyright" (forbidden sharing), and "Patents" (forbidden actions), both culture and its technology are legally required to advance only by the means of novelty. Anything too similar to anything associated with IP, Copyrights, or Patents, is forbidden from being shared or integrated with anything else. Well, only for a generation or two, or maybe the several generations occuring during a person's lifetime. After that, then it is "fair" for everybody to know and learn and apply to their lives the temporary secrets.
The actual intent of those laws might be mostly for attaining credit of attribution, however, they get used as means of monetarily siphoning the energy out of people's dreams and personal interests. The best way for the everyday person of avoiding such impedence and soul-leeching from companies selling their products is probably to never use those products. Never experiencing such products means avoiding their "secrets" and hopefully also their suffocating influence. Purchase and purchase again has led to the same disappointment of products becoming garbage rather than repurposed by the everyday person into everyday life.