If someone was successfully silenced, then I guess by definition you wouldn't hear their complaint. What you can hear, are the near misses, like people employe

If someone was successfully silenced, then I guess by definition you wouldn't hear their complaint. What you can hear, are the near misses, like people employed by an institution that took a vote about whether to fire them, and decided that it wouldn't. Or people who took a hit and recovered, like they were fired but found another job later... maybe a less paying one, but they can still afford an internet connection. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. I assume that for each person who spoke bluntly and lost or nearly-lost their job, there are at least ten people who decided to keep quiet. > said something divisive or not clear enough so as to cause a public uproar That's in my opinion quite sad that being "not clear enough" is a punishable offense these days. In the past, people were less hysterical... well, probably the hysterical ones were just less interconnected. Like, seriously, if someone says a genuinely stupid thing once, would you fire them from their job? This seems completely crazy to me. Did we completely lose the ability to forgive / forget / ignore?