I agree with you Ben. A perhaps surprising champion of free speech is Bob Metcalfe. His law, on the true value of networks (Nothing to do with money), is something that should be put to the top of all laws in all countries. Technically when a person is cancelled or silenced in any way, they are removed from the network, therefore the network loses value, where value means valuable to all people.

Cancelling the media of "The other side" is one of the biggest mistakes we will ever see, imho. The amount of valuable information lost through that is beyond comprehension, it seems to me.

The "Tech" companies owning all the networks are an insult to technology. Anyone truly pro-tech, would use Metcalfe's law as the rule of thumb, on how to run networks. Anyone not following that law, should not be allowed to be in control of any network, imho. Also, no journalists should be in prison, including Assange. He should not be in jail.

It is actually world-endingly serious, this business of misinformation and part truths, like a war against truth. If we end up with nuclear war, it will be because of this.

The end of all motivation to deceive, comes with free energy. We are getting that, slowly, but there is a war of untruth going on around that too, and the danger is we will end ourselves with nuclear, or some other stupid misinformed mistake, before we make the switch.