It's not just hillbilly preachers though is it? It's popularly elected state governments, roared on by media empires with massive audiences, passing new legisla

It's not just hillbilly preachers though is it? It's popularly elected state governments, roared on by media empires with massive audiences, passing new legislation which causes certain books to be pulled from school libraries by teachers fearful of ending up in court. (I do agree that the groups pushing for such outcomes do so in the guise as the scrappy underdog, but they definitely aren't "the left") Arguments that this stuff is somehow inconsequential compared with the reckless horror of a media company editing the back catalogue of its highest paid public face don't come across as sincere defences of free speech.