Eh this doesn't apply in tons of modern cases.

Ridiculous.

Galileo was persecuted and could have been killed for his "crimes."

That is not comparable to Twitter refusing to allow your content on its platform. It is not "silencing" when you can publish it elsewhere or make your own platform.

It is of course dangerous and fallacious to automatically assume the majority is correct, But it is even more absurd to assume an idea is correct because it exists in the margins.

- Lots of folks said it was absurd that there were canals on Mars, presumably populated by little green men.

- The vast majority of people mock the idea of a "Flat Earth"

- The majority of people think the antivax movement is dangerous and dumb

- Anybody with even a minimal science background understands that a perpetual motion machine is impossible, and that anybody who thinks they've created one is delusional or fraudulent.

- etc. etc. etc.

I feel pretty confident I'm on the right side of history. At least as far as those examples go.

this is like thinking because everyone is against what you are doing you must be doing the right thing. it could be what you are selling is just bullshit and everyone knows it is bullshit.

> this is like thinking because everyone is against what you are doing you must be doing the right thing

It's not, because silencing something is very different from being against something.

Indeed. If everybody ignores you then you're probably selling bullshit.

If they try to silence you, you're probably on to something.

There are far, far, far too many bullshit-peddlers to even attempt to silence them all.

Eh. Try to walk down a liberal city with a nazi flag. Plenty of people will tell you to screw off.

Most of the time, information shutdowns like this are targeted at antivax, flat earth, and holocaust denial claims.

Seems like only a few groups tried to silence this because it was demonstrably fake news. Others are happy to play it up. This is more like the type of journalism that put Hitler into power than, say, the smear campaigns against Snowden.