Except when enforced by the point of a gun (that is what government does) it isn't simply "cancel culture" but authoritarian controls of speech. That is an entire different category of a thing. If the so-called "alt left" went to employers and put a gun to their head telling them to fire people, then that would be a more comparable situation. 

And no, my solution to "cancel culture" has always been that workers should have more rights. The only reason cancel culture works so well here in the U.S is because of at-will employment where you can be fired for any reason (barring being part of a protected class.) If there were real contracts, then employers and unions would investigate more before deciding to let an employee go, because it can be costly to let them go. 

To give more international context, what in the US is considered "far left" would be something in Europe the Christian Social parties or other Center-Right parties would do. Here in Luxembourg, the Cristian Social People's Party was originally called Rietspartei, meaning Party of the Right...

I mean let's not pretend the alt left didn't make companies fire people by threatening to ruin their business, or coerced people to conform or be bullied off the internet, doxed, ostracized by family and friends, given death threats, etc.

Again there is a clear difference between threatening to disassociate from a business by not purchasing from it and telling other people to not purchase from it and threatening to use legal and/or physical force against somebody. If that isn't clear, I don't think we're going to agree on this subject.

The company Target's revenue plummeting because black people have stopped shopping there because of their new policies on DEI is not the same thing as Trump (or one of his sycophants) specifically telling the FCC to target Jimmy Kimmel or otherwise it will face a legal battle and lose its license to do business. Black people have a right to shop wherever they want for whichever reasons they want, and to tell people whether or not they should shop their according to shared values. Trump doesn't have a right to target specific institutions and individuals to only speak what he wishes them to speak and nothing else. 

I agree that this is a troubling development and that it poses serious risks.

The alt left also used government power to enforce their ideology though; there are countries where you can be sent to jail for sharing a meme or saying something they deem politically inincorrect.

Care to provide an example of such country or a situation where someone got jailed for what you described? If you're referring to hate speech laws in European countries those have little to nothing to do with alt left.

I also think your comparison of online SJW-mob and what is happening today is silly. Sure sometimes they went over the top looking for things to be upset about, but mostly it was for a good cause of rooting out bigotry, sexual harrasment, discrimination etc. 

For those who are trying to paint either side as the only perpetrators of political violence, can we stop for a minute and just accept the fact that it is both.

Oct 8, 2020 - Gretchen Whitmer Kidnapping Plot
Jan 6, 2021 - Trump Supporters storm the Capitol
Oct 28, 2022 — San Francisco, California — Attack on Paul Pelosi
July 13, 2024 — Butler, Pennsylvania — Shooting at Donald Trump campaign rally
Sept 15, 2024 — West Palm Beach, Florida — Attempted assassination at Trump golf course
April 13, 2025 — Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — Arson attack at Governor Josh Shapiro’s official residence
June 14, 2025 — Minnesota (Brooklyn Park & Champlin) — Shootings of state legislators and spouses
Sept 10, 2025 — Orem / Utah Valley University, Utah — Assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk

To point the finger at one particular side is foolish. If anyone wants to defend any of these incidents, please unveil yourself as a hyprocite.

You all lie like you breath. It's instinctual, second-nature.

Before I came in a couple days ago and posted about the FBI investigating a literal domestic terrorist cell with links to the shooter, no one came to throw accusations about him being radical left-wing or anything about trans people.

Even though the evidence I posted was about a militant Queer group full of trans people, I never even commented on it specifically or make a connection to a trend of trans violence.

You all projected this wild behaviour on everyone else, created this myth about Conservatives or right-wing extremists wanting to spread trans hate.

The only hate being spread is by you. There is no integrity or credibility left in this thread.

Anyone who may casually come across here, I strongly recommend not scrolling through those pages of posts. The amount of evil and harm it will do to your mental health isn't worth it.

This place is a complete lost cause.

As it's the US thread I don't want to derail, but it does happen:

https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/uk-free-speech-struggle-30-arrests-a-day-censorship/

As it's the US thread I don't want to derail, but it does happen:

https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/uk-free-speech-struggle-30-arrests-a-day-censorship/

Seems like Kimmel has now been cancelled.

He made comments about Charlie Kirk, the FCC threatened legal action (including the revoking of broadcast licenses) so a broadcasting company which is currently seeking approval for a merger pulled the show, prompting ABC to cancel it.

Free speech is dead.