Censoring that is like an airstrike: Collateral damage; you look like the bad guy; you still lose the war.
Used only by failing states who don’t understand the world has changed.
No, in this case censoring would be more like Homeland defense. When not used a state will fail. They target the left with fake racism, and the right with fake authoritarianism.
Yes they do. And this is common knowledge, even amoung ‘conspiracy theorists’. The interesting thing about the NoNewNormal crowd was that they were quite information literate.
Bias confirming statements were often met with ‘where’s the source?’. They knew the difference in value between ScienceDirect and bitchute.
The solution to ‘misinformation’ is information literacy, *not* censorship. Ironically, fake news and misinfo seem to be doing a great job of teaching info literacy lately.
It would be nice if we could do more to teach people to detect misinformation. Sadly so many conspiracy theorists are vastly overconfident in their ability.
The NoNewNornal people are no different really. They are over dramatic about vaccines and protocols to reduce spread as if these are permanent things.
Often it is because of them that we have not killed off Covid yet, and are the cause of continued spread to some degree.
You likely believe conspiracy theories if you think the nation is failing due to one of those. Its not racist, or authoritarian. Those are just conspiracy theories.
