If we are going to have an honest conversation about censorship in the United States, we must call out the political left as the principal perpetuator. Whether it's college campuses violently protesting conservative speakers (e.g. Ben Shapiro), tech platforms banning and labeling speech they disagree with (e.g. Twitter, YouTube, Reddit), or corporate America demonizing those whose speak the truth and/or hold differing views from politically left ideologies (e.g. James Damore), postmodern leftist ideology, as articulated so poignantly by Dr. Jordan Peterson, is not only attacking our free speech, but drawing under question the very ideas that form the foundation of our country. I think I speak for many rational liberally-minded small-government constitutional conservatives when I say that it has become increasingly dangerous for us to even have our ideas, let alone express them. This notion that because you feel your ideas you give the moral high-ground you can justify doing horrible things to your fellow citizen with whom you disagree with must be stopped.
The only way to do this is to embrace decentralized and unmoderated platforms. We've lost the freedom of the distributed internet by exchanging it for the convenience of centralized platforms like google and facebook. Even hacker news, and reddit are centralized dictatorships with a bit of democratic groupthink tossed in (effectively minimizing provocative content).
I think we'll start to see stuff built on IPFS and libp2p that will break that trend at least for some of us. Maybe it'll be like the internet used to be, for the technically inclined who aren't afraid of being offended or offensive.
Have you read James Damore's essay? If you look at only the abstract theory, there wasn't a whole lot of 'think differently' or rebellious points of view in there. Totally identical mindset to the status quo establishment. He just decided to be rude while presenting his arguments using non-technical language, and pointing out things about people that they're powerless to change. That's what makes it scary. For example, no one would have thought the worst of him if he wrote a treatise talking about behavioral correlations between samples having or not having the sry gene and called out publishers for suppressing such statistics. Instead he called women neurotic. Not a great way to speak truth to power.
Not defending the rest of damore but the neurotic thing is a reference to well known research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroticism. The fault in that case lies with whoever named a technical research concept using a word that already had negative popular associations.
