“I emphatically feel the greatest threat to humanity is the acquiescence to censorship and the suffocation of free speech and free thought.”
Thank you. I keep trying to tell people this. Bad faith actors who think they are safe from persecution are trying desperately hard to shut down free speech here - despite having the rest of the internet for oppressive moderation. But why?
What is it about free speech that terrifies some people so badly?
Blindness, smugness, cognitive dissonance, ignorance and, at times, malevolence is behind the aggressive push for censorship.
The reality is that without free speech they are in danger too. As soon as the wind blows, it will be their job, their family, their safety that will be threatened.
Free speech is all that we have to protect us. Without it, any one of us can have our life destroyed for speaking opinions not currently approved by the Woke Stasi.