“The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/bari-weiss-censorship-free-speech-hypocrisy/685404/?gift=UDCAY75CzHyGUPSsXwkpWhLl6VMZEq1k0O1H833V2Hk
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@heidilifeldman @tchambers This matter of "cancel culture", we have far-right accusing left to adopt "cancel culture" but when the power goes to right-wing, they do worse.
Btw, I have my own idea about this. Fascism is no longer a far-right oriented political party or position, it's a METHOD.
When in commercial social networks I've seen many self-claiming "activists for animals' rights" who organized themselves and shitstormed scientific pages or, simply, pages of restaurant where they cook meat. This behaviour is fascist. And ruins real pro-animals/environment advocacy.
People judging someone as homophobic after being perplex or skeptical about an activist's or politician's position. Everyone should have the right to talk back.
However, I think there should be a reason making sense, for a contraddictory.
If I say that Earth is round, and you reply that it's flat, before giving it for granted, you should prove your opinion with facts.
No idea what's going on there in USA, but here in Italy public debate is polluted.
To talk about assisted death for terminal diseases, they show a testimonial such as "I can't walk, I can't talk, but I'm a writer". Little detail, that man has his sight still working while the one who died for voluntary assisted death talked poorly, didn't move a muscle, and was TOTALLY BLIND.
As an assistive tech expert, I can say that there's no valid working support for such a disaster. No hands sensitivity, no reliable voice input, you can't control a smart home by yourself at all.
Or, worse, on vaccines. The contraddictory of a virologist researcher, you know who they place on stage? A former actor, a former showgirl, a former deejay. With no medical skills at all.
Have those folks the right to talk back on something out of their field? "One equals one" is not democracy.
Larry Ellison isn't promoting dialogue with his media monopoly.
He's promoting monologue.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/opinion/larry-ellison-paramount-cbs-tiktok.html
With a #MadKing bloviating to his cowed subjects.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/politics/fact-check-trump-prime-time-address
https://sophiepomme.com/george-orwell-1984-quotes-predictions/
Trump & Larry Ellison are also very keen on Orwellian forced listening too.
https://aeon.co/ideas/orwell-knew-we-willingly-buy-the-screens-that-are-used-against-us
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescreen
https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/anti-fascist-movie-monologues-78467/
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