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Originally Posted by Spexxvet
Would that be to protect the freedom of the press, or to try to influence the news that Americans have access to?
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That kind of thinking is pretty twentieth-century. Information now has too many pipelines for a government to reasonably expect to choke off or control -- the classical twentieth-century dictatorship may be called an "information dictatorship" for its use of basically rationing information to the populace. About the only two that are left of this type are Cuba and North Korea. Even the Great Firewall Of China will not prove adequate to its task and will be burned through by the demands and needs of the Chinese populace.