Yea, and most public discourse is at the level of "I saw a post online about it once". Most people aren't doing deep research before their opinions about things

Yea, and most public discourse is at the level of "I saw a post online about it once". Most people aren't doing deep research before their opinions about things that aren't actually that relevant to their day to day lives. 95% of the world, at best, still has no idea who Ross Ulbricht is even today.