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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by majormajor on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:21PM (#25663444)
I don't really think so - because I don't see the splits that way, as many of the people angry about "reduced speech" are people with extremely high levels of speech as members of the ruling political class, like Ted Cruz - but this is somewhat similar to one of the theories about the modern American Right's appeal in the South - increased opportunity for minorities is seen as a threat to the folks used to having it all their way. Increased speech for previously-censored groups is interpreted as censorship of themselves.
Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by breatheoften on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:40PM (#25663655)
Sorry I didn't mean to imply that the anger component here was related to any specific party complaining about loss of political speech in a disingenuous way -- I was more attempting to diagnose the current overall bad state of the politics as being a result of the way that pressure is put onto "freeness" of speech when an authoritarian regime actively creates an engine that makes reasonable discourse difficult or impossible ...