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> Censorship is the path that leads to tyranny.

And untethered fake news propaganda leads to world wars and butchery of millions of innocent people. There's a balance to be struck and right now, with unfettered capitalism and no social contract in USA, there's just too many people that wish to abuse news to hurt and even cause death of other people.




True, remember when Alex Jones told us Saddam had WMDs and we went to war? Crazy times...


> fake news propaganda leads to world wars and butchery of millions of innocent people.

What are you referring to here? Wars and butchery have been reliably championed throughout history by regular news propaganda.




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