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Old 07-15-2020, 09:28 AM   #6757 (permalink)
Frownland
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corporate overlords
This is also a good tl;dr for my post.

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I agree with most of this but I don't see how identifying corporate culture as the driving mechanism is at all conflicting with the question of how this whole thing impacts open discussion and art. That question remains regardless of what the root cause is.
Understanding the root cause leads to better understanding the issue and how to come up with a final solution. The concept of cancel culture (assuming that the bolded is referring to cancel culture) as it's typically presented places the blame on the individual over the [s]reptilians[/s] as a distractive tactic.

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That's why I don't find the argument that it doesn't matter as long as the government isn't the one policing speech to be very compelling.
The letter doesn't either, which is why I didn't address it in my post.
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