Of course they don't need it for a conspiracy theory. The point is, they don't need it at all. Unless you think you can always trust the government to be all-seeing and all-knowing, and a paragon of integrity and wisdom.
Logic scheme: Government enacts something stupid because it believes in something stupid. Kind of like all the climate-saving restrictions... "Well, the government wouldn't be enacting all this green energy stuff if climate change wasn't the honest truth."
Of course they don't need it for a conspiracy theory. The point is, they don't need it at all. Unless you think you can always trust the government to be all-seeing and all-knowing, and a paragon of integrity and wisdom.
Logic scheme: Government enacts something stupid because it believes in something stupid. Kind of like all the climate-saving restrictions... "Well, the government wouldn't be enacting all this green energy stuff if climate change wasn't the honest truth."