Some ideas are good. Other ideas are bad. If people are able to share ideas, some people will share bad ideas. This problem goes back to Gutenberg. Some will

Some ideas are good. Other ideas are bad. If people are able to share ideas, some people will share bad ideas. This problem goes back to Gutenberg. Some will argue that the powers that be owe it to the less intelligent and less powerful masses to make sure to remove bad ideas, and/or to promote good ideas. Others will point to history and note that banning books, or forcing people to read the “good ideas” has rarely been a successful long term strategy. I side with those who reference history. History tends to be cyclical. Most thoughts have been thought before. Students of history have learned that manipulating what people think by engineering the free flow of ideas may work great in the short term, but longer term it’s doomed to failure.