> This is a blatant attempt to silence political speech the current regime doesn't like -- it was literally "cancel this guy or we'll make things hard on you."

> This is a blatant attempt to silence political speech the current regime doesn't like -- it was literally "cancel this guy or we'll make things hard on you." If they thought it was so easy to defend and so obvious why did they buckle so quickly? > They didn't even try to couch it in the terms you're using to defend this entirely authoritarian attempt to chill free speech What did they couch it as?