Doesn’t the stochastic nature and absence of central coordination give it higher validity than censorship in USSR or China? At least if enough people change the

Doesn’t the stochastic nature and absence of central coordination give it higher validity than censorship in USSR or China? At least if enough people change their minds, this may work because no one will roll tanks on them. But yeah, like then, some people are now acting out of fear (or the dreaded value signalling) and self-censoring, which is a sad similarity.