An interesting trend in our culture is that many social media companies and organizations have taken it upon themselves to "protect" the population from critically thinking for themselves to determine the truth. Evidence of this is seen in the censorship efforts aimed at shielding your mind from information deemed too sensitive for you to handle. Additionally, governments worldwide have launched campaigns to address what they refer to as a "misinformation emergency."

Make no mistake, the core of these efforts is the notion that you can't think for yourself. If something is truly false information, it should be left to critical thinkers to sort out. "If something can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth." However, these information control operations often appear to be about slowing or stopping the spread of truthful information that might jeopardize existing power structures. This is never openly stated but is often done under the guise of "protecting the public from malicious information".

This is why I firmly believe in the First Amendment right in the United States—freedom of speech and expression. We have the freedom to say things that people might not agree with. The idea of centralized control of the truth is inherently tyrannical, regardless of the arguments behind censorship.