> And no you could publicly question everything back then. You're remembering things through rose-colored glasses. Ellen DeGeneres and Laura Dern, Bill Maher a

> And no you could publicly question everything back then. You're remembering things through rose-colored glasses. Ellen DeGeneres and Laura Dern, Bill Maher and the Dixie Chicks can tell stories of what happened in the 90s and 2000s when you went against the mainstream. In fact, people were cancelled over the silliest things (remember nipplegate?). Government censorship was also alive and well: Under the Bush junior administration, NASA and EPA scientists were not allowed to use the phrase 'global warming'.