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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Just like diet, some people prefer balancing food types and practicing moderation, and others overindulge on what makes them feel good in the moment.

    Having food options tightly controlled would restrict personal liberty, but doing nothing and letting people choose will lead to bad outcomes.

    The solution is to educate people on what kinds of choices are healthy and what are not, financially subsidize the healthy options so they are within reach to all, and only use law to restrict things that are explicitly harmful.

    Mapping that back to news and media, I’d like to see public education promoting the value of a balanced media and news diet. Put more money into non-politically-aligned news organizations. Look closely at news orgs that knowingly peddle falsehoods and either bring libel charges against them or create new laws that address the public harm done by maliciously spreading misinformation.

    But I’m no lawyer, so I don’t know how to do that last part without creating some form of tyranny.