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> Also important though is it never really went away.

Sort of true -- but only because you can't kill the idea, the need to find the cause of the pandemic to avoid a repeat.

This is cold comfort to the people who were getting banned had their accounts cancelled for suggesting things that turned out to be actually true.

There's was a lot of collateral damage here, all in the name of... well I'm not sure. Trust is hard to build, and once broken takes a long time to regain.

The point is, as a society we're heading in the wrong direction. Freedom of speech is becoming freedom for those who keep their mouths shut.



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