There is a reason why censorship is coming back these days, and its primary cause is technological. Of course, the proponents of censorship are people, but basi

There is a reason why censorship is coming back these days, and its primary cause is technological. Of course, the proponents of censorship are people, but basically, the entire sum of technology behaves as an organism that optimizes for efficiency in its own growth. Dissenting ideas are impeding the growth of technology now. Moreover, we can roughly gauge how dangerous dissenting ideas are by how strong the push for censorship is. For example, there is already another post in this thread about the left pushing for censorship for speech if it is goes against their radical identity politic philosophy. But why is that? It is because their philosophy is idea for getting as many as people as possible building technology. Of course, that is not the proximal motivation of most leftists, but the technological system is giving them a voice because it helps technology progress. (Note, I am not right-leaning, nor do I intent to advocate one political point over the other. I never vote for conservatives, as I hate their anti-environmentalist philosophy. The right and left have one goal in common though, and that is to push technology forward. Thus both will be in favour of policies that push technology forward, but in different ways.)