West Sussex Gazette

Present debate is long overdue

- R.W. STANDING Sea Road, East Preston

The present debate about globalised digital media, fake news, and uncensored content, is long overdue.

It tends to prove that fashionabl­e talk about freedom, and free trade, is a distortion of reality. Freedom is a question about whether we move towards moral and social apathy, or towards responsibl­e altruism. What is worse is where the web and large commercial enterprise­s use free trade in order to monopolise and manage demand to their own purposes – the opposite of freedom. The economy is part of the society it serves. Eeach country must be responsibl­e for getting itself in order, socially and environmen­tally. Not to mention reducing population.

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