A well-thought article > One of the big themes of 1984 was the reduction of everything to simple binaries. He described a world where “all ambiguities and shad

A well-thought article > One of the big themes of 1984 was the reduction of everything to simple binaries. He described a world where “all ambiguities and shades of meaning had been purged,” > A political movement has long been afoot in America and other places to reduce every political question to simple binaries. > This is straight out of Orwell. Instead of having “ambiguities” and “shades of meaning” on Covid-19, they reduced everything to a binary: vax and anti-vax. It was the same with someone who shared true research about the efficacy of natural immunity or suggested that the virus came from a lab. It all might be factual, but it was politically inconvenient, something they called “malinformation.” > [Green Party candidate] Stein was put on a [Twitter] denylist called is_Russian because an algorithm determined she had too many beliefs that coincided with banned people, especially Russian banned people. > We have been complaining about censorship, and it’s important to do that. But they are taking aim at people in a way that will make censorship unnecessary, by building communities of human beings with no memory and monochrome perception.