Vaccine obligation is less of an issue for me than the actual social dynamic at play. What bothers me most is every TV channel, every news site, all of social media telling people to think the same thing, do the same thing, and attack anyone who disagrees like a bunch of white blood cells

Not only this, but the sort of sadistic, authoritarian tendency that this brings out in people. I can only imagine how much more extreme this is when a country is trying to send people off to war.

I don't think the problem is private ownership, I think it's herd mentality. For some reason whenever people get into groups they get way more aggressive. I remember readying Freud's little book on group dynamics and minus the Oedipal BS it rings entirely true to how people are

Just look at past historical examples, e.g. the Salem witch trials, slavery, the Holocaust, any genocide period. If people are capable of doing this, who's to say they won't do it again? We're just supposed to assume that today's society has moved passed all of this and give the status quo the benefit of the doubt? I'd rather not

No, the issue is mass media. Private ownership of mass media just allows moguls to dictate their ideology to the mass. Slavery and holocaust are very, very good example of what happens once this ideology is dictated.