In reply to jerry the mouse.

The problem with this line of thinking is that it assumes your "facts" are the one true fact. Throwing around names like snopes which has a clear left-wing bias and will call misremembered numbers a "pants on fire lie" doesn't help the argument for gatekeepers. What this COVID-19 pandemic has shown us is now more than ever the "authorities" should be questioned at every move. You were right in saying:"The supposed Covid-19 controversies all seem to boil down to: will you pay me money to protect you", except it was the very CDC and WHO that were shouting nonsense to all of us in hopes of gaining more funding, so I believe they deserve every bit of mistrust and scrutiny they have earned.

What is clear now is that these social media and data companies are politically driven and morally corrupt. We don't need more gatekeepers, we need less gates. Self responsibility must be the paramount expectation of the individual if we wish to have a free society.