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by AnimalMuppet 1728 days ago
Newspapers used to solve this problem by severe throttling. Anyone could write a letter to the editor; almost none of them were printed. "Default deny" may have helped the newspaper maintain a monopoly on "truth", but it also kept it from turning into a sewer of trolls, propagandists, and the (sometimes deliberately) misinformed.