More speech.

Sigh. YouTube Will Remove Videos With Misinformation About Any Vaccine. I don’t really care what the topic is, I fall back to Justice Brandeis: “If there be time to expose through discussion, the falsehoods and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.” Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)

The past year has been a rollercoaster of things that couldn’t be uttered without being “canceled,” only to have those falsehoods become credible possible truths... Just one case in point, the “SARS-CoV-2 came from a Chinese lab” theory was widely derided as a baseless conspiracy theory, only to become recognized as a viable possibility (that even Jon Stewart has advanced).

Or ... Remember how fast folks were to shut down anyone questioning whether or not a cloth mask could provide protection against 0.09 μm virus particles? This is the only meme I could find over a year later, but even suggesting that was a consideration was enough to get shouted down. But while those reactions were raging, Dr. Fauci we now know (via released emails) was saying the same thing:

The science appears settled on the mask issue now (and is largely in line with the rest of Fauci’s email, i.e., spreading infection; avoiding droplets), but at the time there were experts saying the thing others were getting shut down for.

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