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I share your sentiment in opposing such efforts, but I think they're actually highly effective. Right-wing populism would have done much better were it not for the extreme censorship deployed against it. Most people have never even heard the best arguments for right-wing positions because they are so actively suppressed.

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I'm very skeptical the censorship is working. Censorship has created a whole class of "intellectual" that is using alternative platforms (e.g Joe Rogan and Dave Rubin) to espouse their points of view.

Those podcasters have enormous platforms and the censorship on the left makes it look like these people are providing a sort of intellectual forbidden fruit. People like the Weinstein brothers commonly point to cases of how the media and tech shut down real news and science and then use that to try to advance their own politics.

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