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Re:Dear Mark Zuckerberg: Democracy is not a Facebook focus g... by smogcutter on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @03:41PM (#13699699)
I believe the question is whether "news" is similar-enough in kind to "food" or "drugs" that it would make sense for the state to regulate it a bit, with the goal (like the "food" and "drugs" categories) of protecting people from their own mistakes.

Yes! We could call it the Department of Truth, seeing as we don't have government ministries in the US.

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