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by young_unixer 2052 days ago
In practice, censorship always comes with this bias:

Mainstream journalists and politicians can say all the lies they want, because they're usually not considered lies by whoever is in charge of the medium (Twitter, Spotify?, the government?).

Fringe movements don't have the popularity to pass off their lies as truth to the general population or the censor, they can only do it to their relatively small group of followers.

In the end, you end up with: popular lies are accepted, unpopular lies are censored. Sometimes unpopular truths get censored too.

Censorship is a problem itself, but a much bigger problem is biased censorship.