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I don't know in which world this guy lives but after hours and hours of debate with both right wingers authoritarians and left wing authoritarians, right winger
by jokethrowaway 5y ago
I don't know in which world this guy lives but after hours and hours of debate with both right wingers authoritarians and left wing authoritarians, right wingers complain about freedom of speech nowadays, left wingers complained about freedom of speech 15 years ago. As th Twitter thread mentions, 15 years ago it was about porn, gore and videogame - nowadays is about talking about your political ideas. I was firmly on the left side 15 years ago, nowadays the only left wing battle I support is drug liberalisation.
In the age of cancel culture I've heard of nobody on the left being persecuted for their ideas, at best I've heard them being criticised by the other side and they run successful campaigns to deplatform them.
My impression is that the educated substrata of society got progressively more left wing authoritarians (likely because of their strategic control of mainstream media and education) and nowadays all the 20-30 something that run big tech have certain authoritarians ideas painted as being virtuous.
An authoritarian internet will undoubtedly raise kids who will be even more authoritarian than the current generation.