Misinformation

A meaningless word.

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Labeling ideas as misinformation is a hoax and a strategy.

It is defined as Information that does not align with some group’s position on a matter. But it isn’t just any group who can use this label and get away with it. They have to control the media, the major news and information outlets. They have to be in this powerful position in order to be able to pressure dissenters to be quiet and go along with the bully’s plan.

Put another way, labeling something as misinformation is attempting to control pubic opinion when you know you are on the wrong side of the argument.

The number of people in this pro-misinformation management camp are an extreme minority. The reason this is the case is because if they were in the majority, they wouldn’t have to waste their time trying to completely control the conversation.

It is the peek of hutzpah for anyone to believe their own opinion or understanding ends the need for all debates.

Sometimes people in power believe it is better to control public debate in order to protect ignorant people not realizing they often, perhaps always, pose the greater threat.

Besides, it’s disingenuous, because if they truly believed they held the truth on something they would not worry about opposing points of view being expressed because each time this would happen there would be yet another opportunity to share the true facts of the matter. Also, because we all get the gist of human nature, we understand how people behave when arbitrarily silenced.

The number of times someone has decided they must be wrong because they were not allowed to express their opinion is never.

But don’t fall for believing that those who wish to control speech are not smart.

They didn’t get to the positions of power they occupy by not knowing a lot of things and having at least some talent. Instead, it is most likely they are acting out of self-preservation and they are at that point in the game where soon everything will be revealed.

In other words, censoring the opposition, in a Constitutional Republic, is a last ditch effort sort of thing.