[corbulo]

Democracies cannot function if the people are shielded from all the evil things that necessitate thinking critically. Bad information is a fact of life, not social media.

The only way you get someone to think critically is putting them in a situation where they have to. If you constantly censor and baby them, they won't make better decisions they will make worse ones.

The idea that censorship has to happen in order to protect democracy really fulfills horseshoe theory.

[yutijke]

But most people do not think critically. Even if we try we do not have access to perfect information.

You read a news article. Is it fact? Is it a tilted spin? Is it truth that omits strategic nuances?

No matter how critically I approach it, I will not be able derive objective truth from biased and fuzzy information.

At some point you will need to trust someone to curate.

[corbulo]

You're absolutely correct. Curation is the ethical answer, not censorship. Gigantic difference.

>No matter how critically I approach it, I will not be able derive objective truth from biased and fuzzy information.

That will always be true no matter the source. There are no truth fairies. There limits of mediums (TV vs Article vs Book vs Movie vs Stream vs etc.) before you even get to individual biases.