To the first line: not at all, we'd both most likely point to Hollywood's blacklisting in the McCarthy era as one of many examples. To the second point: I woul

To the first line: not at all, we'd both most likely point to Hollywood's blacklisting in the McCarthy era as one of many examples. To the second point: I would disagree in the sense that (a) it is dangerous to conflate 'people in a position of power actively using their established power to censor others' and 'mere disagreement'. Censorship becomes censorship when there is active harassment. (b) The latter example of marginalized people on twitter disagreeing isn't such - until the threats are stated. And there is a lot of horizontal violence that exists on that platform. The way I'd personally reframe this issue of (self)-censorship is that we're in a moral panic wave - certain platforms have made it incredibly easy for creators to be mobbed if they step out of acceptable discourse, regardless of their politics. (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic