Another slight disagreement: cancel culture does not require mobs. It works fine with just a few well-placed apparatchiks. Mobs are just one mode of cancel culture, not a necessary characteristic.
Even worse than cancel culture overall however is cancel culture applied to one side but not the other. We are basically in the bottom right box of the prisoner’s dilemma now with both sides defecting, but that is better than the boxes where one side defects and reaps outsized rewards while the side that cooperates gets punished.
A few words about the Biden Admin's systematic pressure campaign on social media and other platforms to censor wrongthink, particularly about COVID, would have bolstered the otherwise mostly balanced take of this piece. It's not as though the Trump Admin invented the recent history of censorial governmental actions -- they were/are just more open about it. An argument can be made that it's an improvement over subterfuge.
To remedy this, you ought to be arguing for the abolition of government schools! That is the core from which alll state-led impositions upon speech and thought originate.
No educational bureaucracy paid for by the compelled earnings of Americans against their will can ever teach Americans to be free thinkers because subservience is essential to the curriculum which propagates itself to keep bureaucracy in clover. When you argue only against the effects, you neglect the primary cause.
I agree with the primary point but not sure the current administration is worse. They are more open about it but the left got away with it by being less obvious. They exerted pressure secretly instead of publicly and achieved the desires results in a different way. As for Ricoh, if there are people funding terrorists it may apply. I am concerned about redefining things to prosecute people but the left like Soros and USAID funded leftist are definitely working to destabilize and destroy our nation. Gutting the education system to save our childen will also be framed as a free speech issue. They are a legal institution destroying our country and controlled by the left. I'm not sure how you take the moral high ground and fight this with perfect integrity within the law and not be challenged or even defeated. It's a mess.
Minor correction, they didn’t call for censorship of comedy, they called for censorship of Jimmy Kimmel. 😁
“Kimmel” and “comedy” don’t belong in the same sentence.
I love this! I guarantee you that at least one of Kimmel’s writers would have made that joke in the room. That’s why comedians are the best!
Another slight disagreement: cancel culture does not require mobs. It works fine with just a few well-placed apparatchiks. Mobs are just one mode of cancel culture, not a necessary characteristic.
Even worse than cancel culture overall however is cancel culture applied to one side but not the other. We are basically in the bottom right box of the prisoner’s dilemma now with both sides defecting, but that is better than the boxes where one side defects and reaps outsized rewards while the side that cooperates gets punished.
A few words about the Biden Admin's systematic pressure campaign on social media and other platforms to censor wrongthink, particularly about COVID, would have bolstered the otherwise mostly balanced take of this piece. It's not as though the Trump Admin invented the recent history of censorial governmental actions -- they were/are just more open about it. An argument can be made that it's an improvement over subterfuge.
To remedy this, you ought to be arguing for the abolition of government schools! That is the core from which alll state-led impositions upon speech and thought originate.
No educational bureaucracy paid for by the compelled earnings of Americans against their will can ever teach Americans to be free thinkers because subservience is essential to the curriculum which propagates itself to keep bureaucracy in clover. When you argue only against the effects, you neglect the primary cause.
I agree with the primary point but not sure the current administration is worse. They are more open about it but the left got away with it by being less obvious. They exerted pressure secretly instead of publicly and achieved the desires results in a different way. As for Ricoh, if there are people funding terrorists it may apply. I am concerned about redefining things to prosecute people but the left like Soros and USAID funded leftist are definitely working to destabilize and destroy our nation. Gutting the education system to save our childen will also be framed as a free speech issue. They are a legal institution destroying our country and controlled by the left. I'm not sure how you take the moral high ground and fight this with perfect integrity within the law and not be challenged or even defeated. It's a mess.