So true. I live in an Indianapolis suburb with a consistent republican stronghold. In early 2023, my neighbors and I discovered there was a convicted child sex offender serving his probation right above an ice cream/candy store, which just so happens to be within 100 feet of our neighborhood’s most famous park/playground and directly above an ice cream shop/candy store. To make matters worse, he admitted to all 6 of his felony charges in a post-Miranda rights interview with the detectives (noted in the affidavit for probable cause), who already had incontrovertible digital evidence of his crimes. Nevertheless, he served no jail time, did no community service, and paid no restitution to the victims in his videos, most of whom were children younger than 12 and some as young as three and four years old. We naively assumed the local or national news might find it appalling that such unduly lenient sentencing occurred, that federal crimes like child exploitation are being prosecuted at the local level wherein unnecessary plea deals are finagled and supposed “mandatory sentencing restrictions” are, in fact NOT mandatory. But to our horror, no journalists would take the story (and believe me when I say we have been persistent in our efforts), presumably because of the sex offender’s white house familial ties to Biden's former chief of staff. A year later we are STILL censored or BANNED from Facebook and Next Door for simply stating publicly available information.