It's correct though, and in a more general sense the CCP has been emulating big tech and American media corporations to refine how to best censor the population with least pushback. At the same time, the elites of the West admire what the CCP has accomplished.
You have to respect free speech if you want to be taken seriously when you go after others for failing to do so. The West has been inviting this for over a decade and Europe has been doing so even longer.
I'd say the peak of maximal speech was the late 80s to early 2000's. We were just coming off the Red Scare and the Moral Majority were losing cultural influence. "PC culture" was rearing it's head but kids in school and people in private never followed silly rules of political correctness, and comedians in clubs routinely made fun of them. There were places where speech was becoming more restricted than ever, such as the workplace, but with the burgeoning Internet there was a Wild West frontier where anything goes and it felt like that was the future. As the world became more interconnected, everyone would enjoy limitless communication and, seeing that the benefits of free speech outweighed the negatives, would expand that culture to real life as well.
Instead, social media opened the floodgates to the moronic masses and killed free speech in its cradle.
social media opened the floodgates to the moronic masses and killed free speech in its cradle
I agree. Along with the evil, stupid idea of "hate speech" born (where else?) on college campuses and lapped up by leftists and other idiots everywhere.
I would say that social media is the tool that enabled the Cathedral to suppress free speech with the average dumbass going along to get along, as usual.
Russian communists impose censorship in Europe, Chinese communists follow suit. The link is communism. The Soviets won WW2, the good guys lost, and we helped.
No it's not, they've been doing it long before they talked about anyone else doing it. It's used as a thin veneer in an attempt to distract.
It's whataboutism on a national scale.
What they’re doing is kicking the high ground out from beneath the Marxist west. China is bad - and the west in 2022 is basically no better.
It's correct though, and in a more general sense the CCP has been emulating big tech and American media corporations to refine how to best censor the population with least pushback. At the same time, the elites of the West admire what the CCP has accomplished.
They don't feel the need to justify it, they just want you to look the other way.
Nothing says we can't condemn them both.
You have to respect free speech if you want to be taken seriously when you go after others for failing to do so. The West has been inviting this for over a decade and Europe has been doing so even longer.
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Europeans don't have free speech and never did. Americans arguably did at one point. Probably for a couple of days after the Revolution.
I'd say the peak of maximal speech was the late 80s to early 2000's. We were just coming off the Red Scare and the Moral Majority were losing cultural influence. "PC culture" was rearing it's head but kids in school and people in private never followed silly rules of political correctness, and comedians in clubs routinely made fun of them. There were places where speech was becoming more restricted than ever, such as the workplace, but with the burgeoning Internet there was a Wild West frontier where anything goes and it felt like that was the future. As the world became more interconnected, everyone would enjoy limitless communication and, seeing that the benefits of free speech outweighed the negatives, would expand that culture to real life as well.
Instead, social media opened the floodgates to the moronic masses and killed free speech in its cradle.
I agree. Along with the evil, stupid idea of "hate speech" born (where else?) on college campuses and lapped up by leftists and other idiots everywhere.
I would say that social media is the tool that enabled the Cathedral to suppress free speech with the average dumbass going along to get along, as usual.
https://nitter.net/aaronMCN/status/1568582185719930880
Yet again I am reminded of that scene from Mars Attacks of the aliens using earth's translator and words of peace while they attack them.
Russian communists impose censorship in Europe, Chinese communists follow suit. The link is communism. The Soviets won WW2, the good guys lost, and we helped.