There is no slippery slope whatsoever. The government isn't blocking content nor requiring it to be blocked. Individual companies are choosing to block some of

There is no slippery slope whatsoever. The government isn't blocking content nor requiring it to be blocked. Individual companies are choosing to block some of the most obvious propaganda. The obvious pressure relief value for unpopular truths is trivially obtained by sharing such "truths" on their own sites and peer to peer which is as it stands incredibly trivial if not as effective as using existing social media networks to blast information directly at the stupidest and most vulnerable to manipulation but its certainly there. > The willingness of people to defer to random online youtube personalities over more established sources is a failure of those established sources. Bubkis. I know people who prefer conspiracy theory websites to public health info. It's not a failure of any variety of those public health authorities that stupid people prefer exciting and often comforting bullshit to dismal truth. The people who prefer such are largely the same demographics which have always talked about stupid crazy crap like chemtrails and a young earth. There is nothing new about this contingent save its weaponization.