The "Marketplace of Ideas" doesn't state that free expression will always result in goodness and truth. It's just that the alternatives are more dangerous and corruptible because they're authoritarian and put us in a bind when deciding who gets to choose what's "good and true."
The MOI correctly assumes that truth exists, but that nobody gets to claim special authority—"it's true because I said it's true!" This means all ideas must be able to be double-checked and criticized, and that *nobody* has the final say.
An incorrect or immoral idea may still emerge as a consensus (it happens a lot!), but the MOI ensures it will not be etched in stone and that alternative ideas, some of which may be closer to truth and goodness, will have a voice and thus a *chance* of becoming the new consensus.
It's not a perfect system, but it is the *least bad* system.
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