XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: bks@panix.com   
      
    | ...   
    | Social-media companies implementing moderation policies is   
    | censorship, but when those moderation policies favor   
    | right-wing speech and outright bigotry, it's fine. The   
    | "illiberal left" was leading an "epidemic of   
    | self-censorship," but now that the owners of entire   
    | corporations compel their workers to shape content in order   
    | to win the favor of the right-wing president, it's fine.   
    | Liberal snowflakes on campus were trying to censor academic   
    | inquiry, but now the Trump administration is slashing   
    | funding for research it deems "DEI" and censoring museums   
    | and federal historical sites for being insufficiently   
    | jingoistic, and it's fine. We are rapidly approaching a   
    | system where the government uses its authority to decide   
    | which forms of speech are acceptable to publish or   
    | broadcast. And, of course, that's fine.   
    |   
    | Why is any of this okay with so many of those who once   
    | claimed to be free-speech champions or absolutists?   
    | Because, quite obviously, they were not. Many cannot even   
    | claim to be less censorious than the progressives they   
    | criticized, given the clamorous demand for firing people   
    | for remarks about the assassination of Charlie Kirk or   
    | demanding a boycott of Netflix for its LGBTQ content.   
    | ...   
      
      
       --bks   
      
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