History Repeats for Bloggers, Galileo was not allowed write that the earth went round the sun either

I got this email today about legislation to ban 'false information online' regarding websites and social media promoting the 'wrong' news. It appears to be currently passed in one American state at the moment /California/ but makes me wonder if a law like that can be accepted anywhere, then potentially everywhere is at risk.

Galileo: Was Not Allowed to Write Too!

He invented a telescope that proved the Earth went around the Sun, that did not pass the fact checkers of the day, it was considered false information, he was told never to write about it again or else. So the genius shut up. Who do you think lost out there the most?

It was an inconvenient fact for the people in charge in his day, the church, who believed the opposite was true, that the Sun orbited around the Earth. That was the official line, just like today we have new people in charge but the history is repeating.

Copernicus: He Knew 100 Years Earlier

So 100 years before Galileo PROVED the truth, others knew it already. Copernicus had been blogging about it in his own way 100 years before Galileo. If he were here today he would not be allowed blog anything against the official line whether it is true or false, even if it is of enormous benefit to humanity.

It is an eerie sort of history repeating itself!

Galileo Has The Last Word

On display in Florence, Italy, is Galileo's middle finger. Some people say it's pointing up to the Sun, as if to say 'it's where I said it was'. But others say, actually his raised middle finger is at the people who wouldn't let him write, now that he's been proved right!

Will History Repeat and Bloggers Be Silenced?

Anyone in the health niche will know the impact of not being allowed to disagree with the 'official' facts currently dominating the scene. And on a broader scale look at how journalists have been stifled over the years, are they trying to do that to all bloggers now too?

*The message I got in history class was 'history repeats if people are not aware of what happened in the past'.

So let's be aware, some would go so far to say 'let's choose our quantum reality', i.e. let's choose our version of how the future goes and not just sit back and be passively carried along by someone else's idea of how our collective future should pan out.

In any case, Galileo's finger had the last laugh ;)