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Chris271065's avatar

Elizabeth do you mind if I post your comments to my social pages even though they will definitely be fact checked? It's unbelievable to me that those of us with differing opinions are not allowed to be heard, it will only get worse and as you say the government are protecting themselves and their own interests they want us all dumb, fat and ignorant!

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Rob (c137)'s avatar

Does it matter if the newspapers and media are run by companies or in the case of the USSR the government?

Yes... At least in the USSR people knew their news was propaganda.

The west is slow to learn this lesson. Comments have always been censored, it's just more obvious now that they're lying more, they need to censor more.

Orwell wrote 1984 about his experiences, we just live in a more subtle version of it. But it's falling apart because simple points like informed consent are finally getting attention by people.

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