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No, people making millions out of misinformation is the problem. They have learned to appeal to primitive instincts and are making their fortunes out of that.

Attempts are curtailing the spread of dangerous misinformation wouldn't happen without the dangerous misinformation first.

Rather than being mad for "people calling for censorship", maybe you should be mad for people making a profit of deaths, or the general anti-science, anti-education culture that consumes and amplifies it.




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