It'll sound condescending, but you don't actually believe what you're saying right now. I could also get into the fact that companies are under no obligation to spend their money to host content that'll hurt their reputation, but truthfully, that's not the issue I actually take with your perspective. Lying about pandemics gets real people killed, and lying about elections results in government buildings getting stormed by nutjobs. Misinformation is not protected by free speech. They will think "we're not fascist, our shirts are rainbow colored, not brown", if you get what I mean.Įxcuse me not giving more concrete examples, but this is already a wall of text and it would probably only lead to more bad spirit and vindication. The next fascism will come and people will not expect it, they won't even see it when it's there, like in 1933. We tend to orientate ourselves on concrete history or patterns at best, unable to see something that doesn't fit 1:1 into what's inside our heads. When we're thinking of totalitarianism we're having these historical images in mind, these simplified hollywood'esque notions power based on open violence but again in my opinion that's an expression of a mental inelasticity, an inability to go with time. It's more a system, a society as a whole that's getting infected with a fascist spirit. Landlords follow suit (at least in non-private sector where this is possible).Īll this is not directly a state that acts as an authoritarian unit, and where it is, it naturally is concealing this fact to uphold the illusion of a free society. People who speak up against the Covid restrictions, or who even are vaguely associated with people who do lose their job, their livelihood. Banks are closing accounts left right and center in the alternative media sector (to name a popular albeit political entity, not even one month after announcing to open up a TV channel in Germany Russia Today was canceled by all German banks thus being unable to operate). Not only will Twitter et al close your account but they're going after your complete online presence, so you're forced to look for foreign providers (imagine that, you're already driven towards the evil political enemies). No, this political climate of ultra sensitivities and cancel culture spawned a practice where unconvenient actors are deprived of infrastructure on a bigger scale. Because when you're more than some bloke having their opinion, when you are actually heard, when you become relevant for the public opinion you'll not only lose your voice. That's Mussolini style fascism.īut we're already beyond that. So the political establishment has arranged themselves with those quasi monopolistic companies profiting off of each other. These are so powerful in shaping society at this point that they became highly relevant politically (see election meddling just as a cue). But what I had in mind specifically was the role of corporations which naturally act outside of any democratic sphere (except "you vote with your money", but big tech left that point behind already having established essential market positions). Now when we're talking about fascism, were thinking of a totalitarian society, where opposing views are systematically oppressed. You would also not lose your job, as long as you would make it clear that this is your personal opinion and refrain from personal attacks on other individuals (you should be able to say that "women belong in the kitchen" or similar "offensive" stuff). But you would not lose your ability to speak, as it is right now with online communication. This is NOT what any serious critic of free speech is complaining about (I'm sick of that reproach, it just demonstrates ignorance of actual problems). But yes, that's the way it should be: you can say anything, and people would make up their personal opinion based on that, maybe unfriend you. Regarding the statement on women I was just giving an example if that wasn't obvious, a good edge case. I'll answer you on both your comments here. A group of people would come together, discuss it, and decide where the line gets drawn. Well if you think of women that way, that is considered to be pretty piss-poor thinking in 2021.
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