There is probably no topic more on people's mind in the west than that of censorship.
There are good reasons for this. Today we are seeing a resurgence and proliferation of efforts to throttle free speech and open dialogue in the marketplace of ideas.
Whether it is the effort to interfere with communication between people in Brazil and people in the US, or the EU's push to coerce Social Media platforms to do their bidding and remove any speech which does not adhere to the leftist policies of the union.
Whether it is the effort to interfere with communication between people in Brazil and people in the US, or the EU's push to coerce Social Medi platforms to do their bidding and remove any speech which does not adhere to the leftist policies of the union. This is being done through the promotion of the DSA (Digital Services Act) which would more accurately be referred to as the DCA (Digital Censorship Act).
These topics include abortion, vaccine efficacy, climate change, Nationalism, gender issues and the like.
Two actions taken by every totalitarian state that has ever existed are the disarming of the population and the curtailing of their free speech.