Group think, actively encourages similar lies of thoughts and discourages opposing views. They do this by social que or management. Not active censoring.
We are seeing careers attacked, media silencing dissenting views, intolerance to the mere question, and tyranny of force in coercion that over rides civil rights
, FDA guildelines and violations of our very constitution.
This is evil; pure and simple. And if I am right this will result in millions of innocent deaths over the next few years.
The last statement here is a good point; people with opposing views may simply censor themselves out of fear of being outside the group.
(Although I think an argument can be made re: 2003 that there were, in fact, active steps taken to stifle dissent, be it from a general with a contrary opinion or from the Pope's emissary with a plea for peace.)
(I digress here, though; I don't want to hijack the thread.)