OK so this past weekend I found myself in conversation with a polite, friendly, and apparently well-educated, shall we say, European of the usual urban "normie" persuasions. He started saying how he was terribly concerned these days about misinformation, most especially misinformation on social media, and that what we really need now is a committee of authorities to determine what is information, so that the misinformation can be kept out of the public realm. I said, rather mildly, well, you might not like the conclusions of the authorities should one day the other party, the one you don't like, win the national elections and then appoint their own authorities to said committee. I could have cut the shock in the air with a plastic knife. I do believe that this obviously obvious obviousness had not ocurred to him. I then directed the conversation towards more pleasant and less cognitively challenging subjects, such as housepets. Meow.