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I'll give you my opinion, since you didn't ask, but I was hardly silent. I complained (in legally well-reasoned terms) to anyone who would listen. But my reach was small, because relatively few people can even grasp the importance of individual rights, and because I was cut off and censored on social media almost immediately. My frien…
I'll give you my opinion, since you didn't ask, but I was hardly silent. I complained (in legally well-reasoned terms) to anyone who would listen. But my reach was small, because relatively few people can even grasp the importance of individual rights, and because I was cut off and censored on social media almost immediately. My friends and colleagues already think I'm a contrarian and believed that I was simply behaving as usual. Some cautioned me to moderate my publicly expressed opinions "for my own good" and have since distanced themselves. I think mine is a common tale.
Sorry about your experience but I am not surprised. I have stayed off social media because I have regarded it as a cesspool. Decades ago, I wrote an article in which I made the following observation: " A world in which a majority could censor all that it did not like would be a stagnant and a declining world." We are living in that world right now.
I think things are turning around. Look at all the fear in the media about Trump's cabinet appointments. It seems like broad, across-the-board reform is in the air. Let's hope it actually begins to happen.