Leopoldo on Nostr: UNESCO just confirmed what those of us who've lived it already know: press freedom ...
UNESCO just confirmed what those of us who've lived it already know: press freedom has declined 10% globally. A decade of ground lost in a single year.
Autocracy doesn't announce itself. It tightens the information environment first — slowly, then all at once. Control the story, control the people.
Venezuela lost its free press before it lost its elections. That's not coincidence. It's the playbook.
The answer isn't just demanding freedom — it's building infrastructure that can't be switched off. Censorship-resistant tools exist. The question is whether free societies deploy them before it's too late.
Published at
2026-05-13 01:00:52 UTCEvent JSON
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