Reasonable people can argue about what information should be available to the public in a free society.

Should court records about individuals and corporations be public information? What about government and police actions? Political contributions? Photographs of personal residences? Realtime lat and long of your smartphone?

But once we decide what can be public, it seems that only a luddite would try to control where that public information can appear. The very nature of truthful public information is that it is very difficult to control, direct or contain.

It requires authoritarian power and repression to manipulate public opinion by controlling public information. Is that really what we want in an open society?