Civilly allowing other people to talk about what they believe used to be a primary value in America. It probably still is, in the minds of most Americans. But that value is far from universal today. Social media openly judges and cancels speech it doesn't like. What are they afraid of?
Free speech is protected in the American constitution, affirmed many times both in the courts and in academia. The American way to handle dissent is to listen, engage, and make the case for your own opinion. To force dissenters into silence is the way of fascists, the way of totalitarian governments.
Eric Metaxas, New York Times bestselling author of Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, is the latest to be cancelled. His radio show had over 215,000 subscribers on Youtube, but it was permanently banned from the site for "violating community standards."
Did he post obscenity? or foul language? or slander? No, none of those. He interviewed people that Youtube/Google doesn't like.
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