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Overall, I find the orange man laughable, but at the same time i have no issue taking his side on censorship and being against big tech colluding to blacklist Parler. Guess i'm the minority that's able to think across the made up lines

that is true. I don't like the development where big tech companies decide which content and which ideologies are displayed and which are not.

But at the same time, I think that something has to be done about the spreading of incitement and untruths.

You can't have it both ways. People need to think for themselves. You can't have truth or thought police. This path leads to the dark side.

Of course you can't have truth police. But simply stating over and over again, that i am the leader of the world, therefore i should be seated in the white house just does nothing to me. And exactly that way it should be. But we have seen it different. And we need to find ways in order to cope with this madness.

Back in the days, the "crazy guy" in a bar was just that: a crazy guy in a bar. But today those crazy guys get millions of listeners and "self thinkers" and suddenly this crazy guy is the leader of something. And that is bad.

Just blocking stuff will not solve the issue. I still believe in education. But as a process it seems to be to slow, to keep up with the tech development.

Sorry but Trump was never a crazy guy in a bar. He even stated in the 80s on Oprah he would consider running for president. One COULD argue that some of his views are old fashioned or from an era gone by, I would agree with some of that.

There have been pretty crazy people leading countries in the world over the last 100 years. None of them I would say are/were typical crazy guys in a bar. Many were calculated and quite well educated people.

Education I would say is a false prevention method if you are worried about crazy leaders, since it is usually a government that is in control of education systems.

The spread of information around the world is perhaps the one thing that prevents too much inward looking and allows for critical thinking by masses and thus prevents dictators arising. Consider we have seen a hell of lot less dictators over the last 70 years.
One only has to look at countries where information is throttled to see where dictators or even religion still rule.

What big tech companies are doing isn't admirable at all considering all that.

It is better that tech companies censor rather than governments themselves. But when large tech companies are in control of information, become an extension of a particular political party or ideology and these all operate in unison because they are cowards I would say that is pretty dangerous too.

I really like and encourage critical thinking. But starting your "critical thinking" process by simply denying a election result is not my understanding of "critical thinking" it's more like a state of denial. There are people who simply claim there is no pandemic because there are no viruses in the first place. Thats not "critical thinking" that's just a straightforward lie. And this stuff somehow has to be controlled in the future. Otherwise the whole internet idea collapses in itself, because the people are not able to cope with the "information" aka "lies" they read.