Free Speech And Why It Matters

by Andrew Doyle

many social media users whose views happen to align with big tech are cheering on the deterioration of their own freedoms because, for now, the impact is only being felt by their opponents.

‘He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself

the key difference is that when it comes to cancel culture, targets are denounced rather than criticised, and the consequences are hugely disproportionate to the perceived slight.

Cancel culture does not seek to criticise, but to punish,