[hnbroseph]

> Every small town Fudd I ever met had an AOL account

having grown up in small towns, no fudd i knew had a computer, much less an aol account. (and this was in the era of aol discs clogging the mail system.)

> To your second point, that's just nonsense.

"fake news" is censorship through displacement and delegitimization.

censorship is "fake news" by virtue of providing incomplete or distorted information (eg, lies of omission).