It doesn't seem to matter if people have read a "dystopian future" novel where the government enacts a particular dystopian policy. Even though they thought that policy was dystopian in the context of the novel, they somehow think it's a great idea in the real world.https://twitter.com/EFF/status/1429149048997519363 …
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Replying to @cmuratori
The surrender of free speech as a core principle of liberalism and the Left is the most shocking development of my lifetime.
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Replying to @JonasKyratzes @cmuratori
a lot of people on both sides support free speech as long as it's speech that they vaguely support and are happy for censorship of people on the wrong side (see critical race theory bans in the US for a recent example of this from the right)
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Replying to @the_aiju @JonasKyratzes
That is not a particularly good example, though, because it is a ban on government speech not public speech (those bans apply only to what is taught in schools). I am sure there is a more direct example, although I don't know if it would be recent.
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The PMRC is a good example, I think, of bipartisan support for speech suppression. The video game ban that made it SCOTUS was Democrat-led (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Yee ), but I would imagine we could find ones that didn't which were Republican-led.
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Overall, my strong suspicion would be that it will be harder to find examples of right-led speech suppression in modern times because they tend to control less of the publication infrastructure. So in general, they may have more fear that the speech prohibitions will hurt them.
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If for the majority of news outlets, Hollywood, and social media were to be controlled by the right in 2030, I would expect a complete role reversal where suddenly lefties would be decrying the horrors of speech suppression, and the right would consider it "a necessary evil".
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Replying to @cmuratori @JonasKyratzes
yea i agree with this very much, centrist (both center-left and center-right) politics is all political expediency and things tend to go with the wind
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