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Is Cancel Culture Engineered Social Control?
from Episode 158 Part 2 - Tim and Ray on the 3 Evils: Epstein, Big Tech, and Long Island
3 min
A discussion of whether 'cancel culture' and deplatforming (citing Alex Jones) are organically emergent or a deliberately cultivated means of marginalizing dissenting or independent voices online.
- Tim argues cancel culture and PC outrage may be engineered by the state as a tool to marginalize independent media and certain discourse after Trump's 2016 election victory.
- Private corporations and the state function similarly in suppressing unacceptable discourse—Tim sees little practical difference between them in marginalizing or extinguishing speech.
- Tim insists he's never believed the state had any interest in promoting free exchange of ideas, noting they've always worked to marginalize discourse they don't want.
- Alex Jones operated for decades spreading conspiracy theories before finally being deplatformed, suggesting that even powerful people in government and media tolerated him for a long time.
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