“Any online community that is explicitly pro-free speech will inevitably become right-leaning. This is because in the free market of ideas right-leaning ideas win. Which is why we see these left-wing tech companies censoring. No one is buying their progressive, globalist [CoC] anymore, so it must be force-fed down the throats of users and dissent must be stamped out with the iron fist of censorship.” — Gab CEO Andrew Torba
Personally I don’t think the fight is between political right and left. It is between liberty-loving and authoritarian. Today the right is the liberty-loving end of the political spectrum while the left favors authoritarianism. The conservatives are trying to conserve freedom and liberty while the progressives are pushing a restoration of feudalism, with them as the feudal lord. It is the folkmoot versus the palace.
The loss of ability to censor Twitter has the tech-barons and the left in a panic. Since Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter they cannot censor it. Suddenly their lies get challenged. Even though it is a small part of the tech communication spectrum, it is large enough that they feel they have to stop it. They are so hard-over on stopping it they have thrown over Musk, once an icon of the left. (Electric cars, remember?) In the process they are pushing him to the right.
It has happened before. Donald Trump was not a man of the right in 2015. He was a lefty. A Republican, sure and sort of, but a RINO, on the left end of the Republican spectrum. It was the main reason I mistrusted him in 2016 and only voted for him reluctantly. I still believe he entered the 2016 race as a publicity stunt, not expecting to win. Once he got the nomination (with a lot of free publicity from the left who viewed him as an unserious candidate) his competitive instincts kicked in and he won. I expected he would run his Presidency to the left of Bill Clinton. The left, instead of choosing to seduce him with flattery (which would have sucked him left), attacked him. The glorious result (for us on the freed0m-loving end of the political spectrum) was to move him to become the most conservative President since Calvin Coolidge. Because when the Donald get hit, he reflexively hits back. Hard.
Censorship will do that; convert supporters – or at least sympathizers – into opponents. No one likes being censored. And those that otherwise supported leftist causes switch when they discover their views come in second to the narrative. Especially if someone is able to air a countervailing view they can use as a rallying point. There are a slew of formerly otherwise reliably lefty folks who are beginning to recognize there are no limits to the leftward swing, no off-ramp. Equity demands chaos they don’t like. It is being used to dismantle the education system in the name of equality of outcome. Sexual freedom is moving to sexualize their children. But they are not allowed to object. Big Tech, Big Media, and the government wants them controlled and censored.
So far, censorship seems to be backfiring. Especially as regards to Twitter. The real test comes next year, on Election Day.
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