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Berder's avatar

"humans have long shown a robust ability to distrust most all purported info sources. They will surely continue to do so"

Nah. People mostly believe what they are convinced high status members of their tribe believe, without thinking critically about it. This is why we have religions, truthers, birthers, qanoners, 2020 election deniers, and believers in many other unfounded conspiracies. "Distrust" and "critical thinking" usually extend only to claims made by outgroup members.

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Purpleherman's avatar

"Democracy tends to be better"

Well yes - the financial, military, and political top dog is the US, and they favor democracies.

China seems to have improved much more quickly over the last thirty years than democracies.

Is your claim that democracies need freedom of speech to function well, they need freedom of speech to remain technically democracies, or that without freedom of speech, the spirit of democracy is weakened?

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