Siope
Frankly, you’re talking rot. Censuring someone is not the same as removing their freedom of speech. I rather suspect you meant censoring, which didn’t happen. Using your example: the experts on Covid were on television virtually daily.
That's OK to point out the difference. I don't mind that. I actually meant both because so many people, during Covid for example, were censured for disagreeing with the narrative such as the equally qualified scientists and doctors who offered alternative solutions to help people recover. The Great Barrington Declaration was treated with contempt by those who had the power, from Fauci downwards.
The experts who were chosen to front the government campaigns by appearing on TV are part of the problem I was referring to. They provided misinformation, starting with Neil Ferguson's horrendously miscalculated projections and kept going, even when we all knew they were flawed. The government itself didn't believe it, as evidenced by the parties.
I absolutely understand where you are coming from as I have had similar discussions with old friends but if you do your own research you will find things that contradict what the politicians who control the media tell you. Then, like me, you will make up your own mind. Please do me a favour by meeting me half way and looking up: YouTube Dr John Campbell who has done some excellent short videos, one of which is an interview with Prof Norman Fenton, also of London Uni. who has done much more work on the Covid data than Neil Ferguson. When Covid appeared, Dr John put out many videos to advise people on how to stay safe, then when the mRNA appeared to be failing and making people seriously ill or worse, he worked through the data and turned 180 degrees.
You don't have to believe everything that Dr John says (or mainstream media either!) but if you start to worry about the version being told by politicians and the experts they appoint, then you will understand the concerns that many of us are expressing.
