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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.
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You've been in enough of these threads that you should probably have picked up by now that it's not about whether or not you can still speak and have some sort of audience that can find you and listen to you, it's about applying broad social pressure at all times and in all situations to conform to a specific ideology - the whole "chilling effect" hypothesis. Bad stuff will happen to you if you transgress certain moral norms, so to be safe, you steer well clear of them in any context where there are any stakes, even so far as to avoid controversial topics altogether. I certainly do - it's absolutely not worth risking anything to do with my job to even talk about politics in a work setting, for example, when almost everything is a minefield aside from whatever show is popular on TV at the moment. I wasn't working in a professional setting in the late 1990's, but I can pretty much guarantee that for people who were and who supported gay rights, they felt immense pressure to keep that to themselves, lest the intolerant people around them suspect them of being somehow morally deviant or otherwise offside the moral standards at that time.
I suspect (and I have good reason for this suspicion based on actual scientific data about human behaviour) that this actually leads people to be even more extreme in their views and behaviour in low-stakes contexts like the internet, which obviously doesn't help much.