[ioslipstream]

"You can’t discuss this problem without acknowledging the role of bad actors in the system."

On both sides. The government, pharmaceutical companies, and big tech were definitely bad actors. We do not live in a nanny state nor do we want to. What happened during the pandemic was disgraceful. Discussion was effectively shut down and science as well as treatment was negatively affected by the actions of censorship.

[lern_too_spel]

Imagine the Internet didn't exist. Would there have been more of a discussion of fringe views or less? What would the outcome have been on COVID deaths?

[anon84873628]

That's really not true. It just conveniently played into an existing narrative that the liberal media was trying to shut down other views.

The fact that we are so well aware of all the disagreement and skepticism - the fact that many people still have erroneous beliefs about the virus - is a great sign that censorship wasn't effective.