"... it relies on the belief that there's no fundamental difference between some enlightened, rational circle of censors and the irrational masses." This is a

"... it relies on the belief that there's no fundamental difference between some enlightened, rational circle of censors and the irrational masses." This is a very excellent point. While bingeing on HOPWAG, it finally occurred to me that our current food fight (fake news, cancel culture, censoring, trolling) might be due to very different ideas of What Is Truth. If we can't even agree that the universe is knowable and someone somewhere probably has the correct answer, then the whole fight is pointless. "In your view some elite group should decide..." That's the exact opposite of my view. We'll always have more falsehoods than truth. Even when we're trying to find the truth. The challenge of mitigating the replication crisis (in science) is proof of that. Plus, I no longer care what the truth is. Because my opponents don't care. So further debate is pointless. At this point I only want two things. #1 Unplug the outrage machine. #2 To be left alone. I'd like to go ONE FULL DAY without having to think about this stuff. I shouldn't have to completely unplug from the world and actively defend my filter bubble just to do normal people stuff. "...have to do with the paradox of intolerance? There's nothing intolerant about the claim that the Bidens are corrupt." Honestly, I'm not quite sure yet. It certainly seems "flood the zone with bullshit" strategy is related to triggering identity and radicalization.