We are closer to Bradbury’s dystopia than Orwell’s or Huxley’s
&gt; The prophetic accuracy of Bradbury’s work is evident in the recent controversy over Joe Rogan’s podcast.<p>There&#x27;s a lot of smoke and mirrors in this.<p>Suppose I choose to personaly &quot;censor&quot; and stop paying attention to Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter, reddit and that crappy podcast on Spotify, after I understand they&#x27;re just cesspools of ignorance, childish memes and tribalism. Now I can use that time to read books from authors I don&#x27;t necessarily agree with but that can engage me in a deeper discussion. Am I really practising &quot;censorship&quot;?<p>My point is: selecting quality is not &quot;censorship&quot; it is mental hygiene. Bad discussions and bad ideas should really be discarded. When you tune out from a creationist, anti-vaxer, flat-earth prophet or global warming denier you are selecting for quality.<p>A debate where all opinions are equally valid is not healthy. Logically sound opinions are better than stupid ones. It is the most fundamental idea from Information Theory: filter out the noise, keep the signal.<p>Information overload forces you to do selection. And that&#x27;s not &quot;censorship&quot;.