You said...
“You seem to feel that any requirement that facts reported are true leads to censorship.”
It could. But indirectly so. Again, the threat of suing can be enough to silence someone. Read the history of the Fairness Doctrine. It was used to silence opposing “irresponsible” views.Not directly. But indirectly.
And fact have become a fluid term. What’s one person’s facts is another man’s fiction.
The Fairness Doctrine is slime proposed under a fair name to steal our freedoms. There is no resemblance to an acknowledgement that the Freedom of the Press retains the responsibility to fact check and that if the “facts” they tell are false and damage is done there need to be consequences.