Why censorship and fake news cause entropy (disorder) and achieves the opposite
Jim Khalili, the famous physicist, says that you cannot separate information from reality. James Gleick wrote that information, like matter and energy, cannot be destroyed. Information is there when it is thought, spoken and described. Information is not just a story. Jeremy Campbell, in his book 'Grammatical Man' wrote: In its most familiar sense, information today is news, intelligence, facts and ideas that are needed and passed on as knowledge. But a more active and constructive meaning as something that gives a certain shape or character to matter, or to mind; a force that shapes behaviour, trains, instructs, inspires and guides. Nature must be interpreted as matter, energy and information. Information reduces uncertainty and increases probabilities. Information reduces entropy, also known as disorder. But what do politicians do? They try to destroy information by censoring it. For thousands of years attempts have been made to censor the 'word' of nature and peopl...