That's the how, but not the why. A free flow of information is a net good. Restricting information is a net bad. Western society learned this 400 years ago. T

That's the how, but not the why. A free flow of information is a net good. Restricting information is a net bad. Western society learned this 400 years ago. These are the same arguments which were used against the printing press, now being used against the internet, fighting against a new enlightenment the same way that the church fought to maintain their monopoly on knowledge. All combating "extremism" does is protect entrenched stakeholders from the truth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapere_aude https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapere_aude