Today in ZDNet, a propaganda site of advertisers like Microsoft and IBM. It relays IBM's PR talking points alongside Microsoft's (Microsoft helps ICE and other oppressors who commit war crimes and crimes against humanity).
Summary: It is important to understand that IBM never apologised or expressed remorse for what it did; instead if keeps pretending that it never happened -- a chronic sense of deep denial -- and right now it wants us to think that banning a bunch of words will be enough (or a substitute for lack of apologies and substantial action)
There's no guarantee that writing the truth will result in an audience (or readership), but over time - in the long run - people generally gravitate towards what they know or feel to be crude truth, not just what's comforting (albeit false or self-deluding, usually groupthink dictated from above)
Democracy depends on free press and freedom of the press depends on being able to safely publish (and keep available) material that bad people don't want to be known to anybody
The Web is really getting bad; it's also overwhelmed by fake material or plagiarised material, wherein the plagiarism gets disguised/hidden by LLM sausage factories
