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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by slowmovintarget on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:23PM (#25662704)
The current nature of information flow made it easy for them to lie to each other. It isolated them from opposing viewpoints, so they went into an echo chamber of their own.

This is always the problem with suppressed speech. Nonsense will still be spewed, but no one reasonable gets a chance to counter it with analysis and cool it down.

Zeitgeist is broken.

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by slg on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:27PM (#25662755)
Their speech wasn't suppressed. It was simply that they didn't want to hear reality. CNN almost never turns away national politicians. The Sunday politics shows constantly have balanced or right leaning panels. They aren't being silenced. They just want to go somewhere that tells them what they want to hear.
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