Look at the upvotes versus the consensus sentiment in the comments. This appears to be a case of silent majority and vocal minority. Why is one side so fearful,

Look at the upvotes versus the consensus sentiment in the comments. This appears to be a case of silent majority and vocal minority. Why is one side so fearful, and the other so fearless? Is democracy even possible in this condition? This is the problem with censorship. First it’s about the people being censored. Then it’s about the people doing the censoring. Then it’s about the people that disagree with the people doing the censoring. And then everybody is afraid to disagree on anything. And then everybody has to actively agree with everything. And then nothing makes sense but everybody agrees on it, and nobody understands why. And then the whole system depends on everybody believing something ridiculous, so they create counter-narrative honeypots to catch rational thinkers. I read “1984” when I was 15 and it just seemed kind of stupid and fantastical because I didn’t believe that people could be so illogical and I couldn’t see why the state would want to control people that way. Somehow through reading history and the news, it appears far more plausible, although the same questions loom larger. And I also have to consider the simplest answer, which is that history and the news also share the primary purpose of books such as “1984”, which is to put on a profitable form of entertainment.