"You cannot kill an idea," was my biggest takeaway from my undergrad civilization course. The maximum has yet to fail.
Usually these things end up bringing more attention to a specific group or cause due to the Streisand Effect.
Usually these things end up bringing more attention to a specific group or cause due to the Streisand Effect.
China is one example, where being too vocal about certain topics online can land you in a police station interview.
I don't think we should be overly confident that similar things can't happen in the US or EU.
And indeed, in the US we're seeing the administration successfully pressure changes at educational institutions for example. We're already uncomfortably far down this road imo.
You can't kill an idea, but you can severely maim it for a generation or 2.
The Eleusinian Mysteries aren't what they were.
In fact, we don't know what they were.