Phobos and Deimos

The Earth Republic doesn’t have freedom of the press. Now. Did they get that by outlawing a free press outright, by writing laws that labels certain content “terrorism,” or by making sure all the media companies are run by friends of the leadership? The story doesn’t really get into that. But many such examples exist in the real world. Either way, Arthur Weiss gets to say whatever he wants. And Hansa is restricted to anonymous vagueposting.