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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
Guess I don't understand how Joe Rogan is being cancelled then. He's clearly not going to be banished from the internet. Podcasts are basically just an RSS feed. Even if Spotify turfed him, it's still going to be wildly available to anyone who cares.
I won't argue the anti-vaxx part since we have 17 other threads covering that.
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I’ve never said he’s being cancelled.
The behaviour I’m criticizing is institutions caving in to campaigns to cleanse their platforms of people whose speech doesn’t meet the purity tests of the self-appointed guardians of public discourse. And the notion that we’re somehow contaminated by virtual proximity to people who don’t share our values. Liberal democracy needs shared public spaces and tolerance of dissent to survive.
Zealots don’t care for messy, liberal democracy, and will be happy to send it off and replace it with the shining new world they conjure in their minds. However, most people do still value it. The problem is by holding their tongue when it’s their allies chipping away at liberal institutions and values, and only calling foul when the other team does it, they’re undermining those institutions and values just the same. And if they eventually crumble, it won’t really matter which team swung the final blow.