The censorship meant to keep regular people in the dark instead blinded the pseudo-elite censors and their friends.
The shock - both feigned and real - over Joe Biden's long-obvious dementia cements our 2022 diagnosis of the ruling class's dysinformation disorder.
A Dangerous Info Gap In June of 2020, we warned of growing censorship spurred by the Internet's very openness: The democratization of knowledge, expertise, and opinion is a fundamental and mostly welcome shift.
The power of propaganda and censorship is seductive.
Meanwhile alternative exafloods of data and truly expert content, evading gatekeepers for the first time on thousands of decentralized channels, enlighten billions of savvy info consumers, who parse and argue and think critically for themselves When the incompetence of the ruling class is exposed and the people lose confidence, the ruling class must construct ever more elaborate and maximal stories to retain and project power.
The gap between narrative and reality grows into a chasm.
The other side believes more information is a threat to "Our democracy" and demands data lockdowns.
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