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Freedom of press and freedom of speech exist exactly because government could not be trusted, and eventually, lies have to be covered by making it illegal to expose those lies. Censorship seems like a good idea until you realize the end game looks a lot like "Best Korea".

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I try to read alternative media from all spectrums to get all the perspectives on what is truth, and the angles so regularly unmentioned.

However, this newly engorged and incestuous relationship between big Government, Big Media, and Big Tech, engaging in rampant deplatforming and counter-narrative suppression, is a civil liberties disaster of epic proportions.

This was obvious in the time when people that had the most rationale argument typically made decisions on how things should be. Now we live in a time where people who make the most money make the decisions on how things should be.

> This was obvious in the time when people that had the most rationale argument typically made decisions on how things should be.

Outside of a few brief moments in history where sanity broke out, this is usually not the case.

> Now we live in a time where people who make the most money make the decisions on how things should be.

This is the default. Substitute "have the most wealth" for "make the most money" and it's about perfect.

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