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| curl-6 said: But whether it's enforced by official agencies or by freelance extremists on the internet, the end result in terms of stifling freedom of expression is the same. |
My argument is that it is not the same result. Having the government involved in policing speech-content is a fast way for the U.S to become an unfree society along the path of Russia. The U.S is already in a problematic state as it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Press_Freedom_Index#/media/File:Press_freedom_2025.svg
There is a clear power-differential between what the Government of the United States of America can do and what a collection of extremely online twitter leftists who represent a percentage of a percentage of the population can do. This is not "right wing cancel culture" when the government is involved, but an authoritarian state suppressing the speech of its population. There is no equality or symmetry in this. It's not tit-for-tat.
