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>you’re accountable to print the truth

Whatever portion of government handles that in your country, is quite literally analogous to the "Ministry of Truth" in 1984.

>Do you really think you can have a functioning democracy when people live in completely different bubbles of subjective truth?

Nobody knows, its always been an experiment. The experiment is done with the basis that other ways of going about it (some system of enforcing a consistent "truth" among all citizens) would be totalitarian and tend towards tyranny every single time.




Case by case by a judge not by a ministry.




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