Totalitarian governments would prefer that the people have only one source for news and information. They abhor the idea of exposing the people to a variety of competing ideas and a wide spectrum of information.
This should inform people everywhere, but most especially Americans as to who is really supportive of individual freedom, from those who merely pay the idea "lip service".
It should be obvious that to maintain a free society we need to be tolerant enough to allow the widest variety of ideas to be presented to the public. A public informed enough to choose wisely between competing ideas, with the help of open discussion.
All of which tends to make ruling all but impossible and requiring that the leadership govern instead. But, alas, people get lazy and take things for granted. They lose the "eternal vigilance" needed to keep those would be oligarchs at bay. And almost before you know it, you're being given reasons why you should be listening to fewer and fewer sources for your news and information. Unsurprisingly you will find that the news sources approved of are sources whose content is strictly controlled.
Identify and eschew the minions of totalitarianism.
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