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Interesting guy.
Do you want to live in a country where the media relies on the government for their economic livelihoods, which creates a clear conflict of interest and destroys objectivity, or a country where the citizens choose which media they trust and consume?
Would-be-censors aren't concerned with a culture of censorship because it's crucial to their thought-control goals. Self-censorship is a crucial component to State enforced censorship. All authoritarian tyrants understand it's easier to have people police themselves out of fear.