What instance can you think of where governments have been held accountable for their censorship? There aren't a lot of high profile cases there.
> Option (1.) is the status quo and is the worst. The others each have pros and cons.
Based on what evidence? Where have alternatives been tried? Why aren't those alternatives in general use if they are so good? Is this a comparison of messy reality with unattainable theory?
Trading a thing we can choose not to use for a thing must use and that is integrated with military force. is always a bad trade. However bad Google is, government control of the media is worse.
The only exception I make to that rule is foreign ownership of media, which is probably worse than government control. But both are pretty bad.
>" Where have alternatives been tried? Why aren't those alternatives in general use if they are so good?"
Did you live under a rock for the past hundred years? We have actual regulation of newspapers, radio and television. They dont need to be owned by the government, but we have media regulators thay set standards, and where you can complain
I suppose my response to that is you're waving your hand and saying "there is hundreds of years of evidence" without actually pointing to any.
Social media is still a far better platform for getting out an unpopular message than newspapers, radio and television. The past hundred years of those media have been marked by minority groups (political, but also in the common sense of the word) really struggling to get a voice.
What instance can you think of where governments have been held accountable for their censorship? There aren't a lot of high profile cases there.
> Option (1.) is the status quo and is the worst. The others each have pros and cons.
Based on what evidence? Where have alternatives been tried? Why aren't those alternatives in general use if they are so good? Is this a comparison of messy reality with unattainable theory?
Trading a thing we can choose not to use for a thing must use and that is integrated with military force. is always a bad trade. However bad Google is, government control of the media is worse.
The only exception I make to that rule is foreign ownership of media, which is probably worse than government control. But both are pretty bad.