Here is another metaphor: imagine Consensus Reality as a big or small circle.
The claim made, by “fact checkers”, “professional opposers of Error and Mis/Dis/Dysinformation, and all left wingers generally, is that All Truth resides in this circle. We know this because of EXPERTS.
Does it seem plausible to you that no true claims exist outside this circle, or that ONLY true claims exist within?
Nonsense.
And the patent goal is to SHRINK “Consensus Reality” through censorship, which is to say by making the lines of the Truth (Pravda) Circle impervious. You are not to be ALLOWED to talk about non-allowed truths AND be forced, at least publicly, to accept EVERYTHING inside the circle.
Is it not self evident that absent discussion and a commerce of ideas, that soon the circle will only be filled lies?
This is in effect what was done and is STILL being done with COVID. A truth perimeter was set down, no one was allowed to question it, and no outside ideas were allowed in.
This is how you create perfect, and perfectly confident, imbeciles.
Its been done many times. It is being done now.
Bad ideas get weeded out through discussion. There is not now, and never was, any real risk of public harm from misinformation.
On the contrary, the onslaught of Commissars is intended to PROTECT disinformation, and keep unwanted truths out.
I write this while being locked out of somewhere again for sharing the Columbia vaccine study. They didnt want it in their neat, tidy, completely wrong circle.