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What is the difference between censorship and management of spam, fake news, sock puppet accounts etc?


Isn't there a big difference? It's removing fake junk vs hiding truthful information.


Who decides what Junk is? who guards the guardians?


There is such a thing as objective truth.


I disagree, facts do exist, the truth has always been a valuable asset for the ones who knows it. This is what most modern journalists or glorified bloggers don't get.


What exactly are you disagreeing with then? Or did you reply to the wrong post?


Simple: when you "manage" real news as if it were fake news, you are engaging in censorship.




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