> better approach would be building up the critical thinking skills of the population The term for that is "Intellectual self-defence" > transfers a measure

> better approach would be building up the critical thinking skills of the population The term for that is "Intellectual self-defence" > transfers a measure of power to the people and is a multigenerational investment The challenge to that literacy comes not from power riding on censorship, but from the people themselves who are now conditioned into an apathetic need for "convenience". Critical thinking is hard work, and is never rewarded except in the long run. Also, anti-censorship absolutism must be tempered with what we call "information hazards". Some of these are genuine, although admittedly very rare, such as easy instructions to create nuclear weapons or synthesise a deadly virus. There are just too many idiots in the world not to want to put a brake on that stuff.