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That's the opposite of totalitarian, btw, if we're interested in words.


In what way is government-mandated censorship and falsification of history "the opposite of totalitarian"?


In that the government isn’t using people as tools. People are using the government as a tool.

(Edit: without addressing your questionable definition of what it means to control one’s data.)




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