2024-11-01

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Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

  • The systematic attack on sense-making - by Lorenzo Warby

    The internet, via social media, also allows mobbing behaviour—shaming and shunning behaviour—following patterns that first emerge within the women’s movement in the 1960s and 1970s. As an extension of this, it also generates cancel culture—seeking to destroy the reputation, career and businesses of people for things they said or wrote, or were alleged to have so done. The techniques of cancel culture were pioneered by lobbyists purporting to speak on behalf of Jews. Techniques that social media allows other activist networks to engage in: most dramatically Trans-activists. All of which has led to a situation where majorities of people in the US and elsewhere tell pollsters they have political views they are afraid to express.

  • We're in a Free Speech Golden Age - Yassine Meskhout

    One of the grievances I’m perennially confused by are right-wing concerns about free speech suppression. I recently had an extensive 2.5 hour discussion with Hunter Ash, someone who is voting for Trump explicitly because he believes Kamala Harris (and the Dems in general) present a particularly pernicious threat to freedom of expression, while a second Trump presidency promises to safeguard it. I was, and remain, extremely confused by this position. One of the judgment calls I had to make was to decide how deep into basic fundamentals Ash & I needed to get into. So I started the discussion with “what is free speech and why is it good?” and at the time, I thought we had enough of a shared understanding, but it became obvious throughout I was mistaken and had not gone deep enough into fundamentals. I want to remedy that in this post. My affirmative belief is actually that we live in a historically unprecedented golden age of free expression, and I wouldn’t expect Kamala Harris to have a meaningful impact (positive or negative), at least not any different from your baseline normie politician. I also believe that it’s beyond dispute that Trump presents a unique danger to free speech, and the only way anyone can disagree would be if they have a vastly different definition of free expression than I do. So let’s start there.

    I have no affirmative case for Kamala Harris as a bulwark against suppression except to point to her long barren legislative record within this field, but also because I’ve outlined why I don’t think free speech is in particular jeopardy. I like Harris for the same reason I liked Biden in 2020 — they’re both boring normie politicians who will probably be “fine”, especially when compared to the unhinged alternative.

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