I still remember how I said the government is telling social media websites and most of faang to censor things like 2 years ago and got downvoted here, it was s

I still remember how I said the government is telling social media websites and most of faang to censor things like 2 years ago and got downvoted here, it was so obvious a child would see it but somehow most people here blocked that part of their brain so they don't get labeled as a "conspiracy theorist". We kept running that propaganda about freedom and how authoritarian regimes are evil so much that I for one believed it and thought everyone shared the belief, then saw people ARGUING against free speech and other things I thought were solved problems in first world countries. The US for example is a country that invaded another country for oil and sold it to its people as a war for freedom, and called Iraqis who fought back terrorists, and now calls Ukrainians who fight back heroes, oh and both the US and the UK made fun of us for not joining their invasion (France). In my opinion, all types of ideas should be allowed to battle freely and trust that this will drive us forwards, we do it with marketing, everything is allowed to the point people don't even know if they're buying things because they want to or because they're controlled into doing it, just do it with ideas as well, let everyone present their case online and offline and let the opposition argue against it logically or emotionally or whatever, people know what's best for them it's the first principle of a democracy, as soon as you start saying well X-speech will make people do terrible things which are bad for them so we should ban it you stop being a democracy in my opinion.