Liberals are tired of misinformation and disinformation. Vaccines and climate change aren’t “political orthodoxies”, they are—respectively—one of the greatest l

Liberals are tired of misinformation and disinformation. Vaccines and climate change aren’t “political orthodoxies”, they are—respectively—one of the greatest lifesaving innovations in all of medicine and one of the gravest threats to the stability of civilization as we know it. This is scientific reality. I don’t think that means speech critical of those things should be banned, but I also don’t think bad actors causing panic where none belongs (and complacency where some level of panic is warranted) is something we want running completely unchecked. I don’t know what the answer is, but part of me believes it might be nice if we could assign some level of responsibility for the consequences of speech, even when those consequences are diffuse.