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.
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.