[shockeychap]

> So?

Seriously?!? If the lab leak discussion had been suppressed just a little bit more, would we even be talking about it today?

Wrong ideas have always existed and always been part of life. From a pile of wrong ideas, a few right ones emerge.

I'm old enough to remember well the plethora of 9/11 conspiracy theories. Some of them were quite offensive to the people who suffered and died on that day. But I never called for suppression of free speech because of it.

[belltaco]

9/11 conspiracies did not cause violence or deaths. About one 9/11 worth of unvaccinated people are dying every few days. We spent trillions going after the people who orchestrated the 5000 odd deaths on 9/11. But fake news and misinformation are somehow okay, and the minimal attempts to combat them by social media websites are demonized.