And what is access? Access of parties to shove information down my throat? Access for parties with deeper pockets to drown out real information? If information

And what is access? Access of parties to shove information down my throat? Access for parties with deeper pockets to drown out real information? If information would be in a book and I could go to a library and seek it out - don't ban anything! But if messages are replicated in covert manner with lots of money thrown at news anchors, op-ed writers, sponsoring, bribes, syndication, SEO it is a different story. And money is not the only problem. Cognitive psychology has progressed a lot and it is possible to engineer "information" that is very likely to spread in a viral manner. Push the right reader gratification buttons and off you go leveraging the social networks. It is important I believe to distinguish between information and data. Information must be accessible but what is happening is we are flooded with replicated data containing almost no information. It used to be that volume of data was often a reasonable proxy for importance - not anymore so. I think people are catching up to this but unfortunately it also makes it easier to sell crackpot theories.