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no one assumed that? The point is everyone can say whatever that person wants, including ANY journalists. Being afraid of some "government policy" is a paranoia coming from countries where the first point does not apply, projecting their own fears to others


>Being afraid of some "government policy" is a paranoia coming from countries where the first point does not apply

So like a long tradition from Gary Webb to Assange, cancel culture, attacks on the integrity and reputation (and de-platforming) of people like Taibbi or Greenwald, and so on?


>cancel culture

Damn the uk gov sits on Twitter all day?

Maybe these people you bring up isn't as benevolent as you think they are?


>The point is everyone can say whatever that person wants

This works fine if everybody's voice has equal weights but some have louder megaphones than others. Their voices matter disproportionately more.


Has there ever been a place or time when this wasn't true?




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