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I'd like to think we're at a point where the infinitesimal cost of bulk transport and storage of text makes it implausible to suppress information freedom completely. At least I would have thought so some years ago.

But this underestimates the extent to which information can be a weapon: to identify a target, to misinform, to libel, to harass, to define a crime in the eyes of the state, to insult, to waste time.

Information freedom-to also requires a degree of information freedom-from.