| "Woke" doesn't really seem to mean much anymore. It has become a code word used by the right, which could be summarized as "the enemy". There are other code words like "cancel culture" which similarly applied, but not apparently applicable to right wing cancelling. I wouldn't take anything too seriously from [Project Veritas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas) who have an ongoing issues of distorting, misrepresenting and the like - the ACORN case being most obvious. "Elon doing this is now massive peer pressure in the opposite direction." What is the opposite direction? Why is that better/good? I honestly don't know what the opposite of "woke" is, because "woke" is used as a reactive response. It's whatever it needs to be to attack. This all seems part of a wider "culture war". Like many wars it's actually hard to know what underlies it. "Libertarian" style free speech is widely available. Unfortunately it seems to just degenerate into trolling and the worst of human behavior. (say like 4chan/8chan etc). If you want "Authoritarian Conservative" you can go to Truth Social or "r/conservative" on reddit. "this is likely great news for proponents of free speech" Free speech protects citizens from the government. If twitter doesn't want Nazis (or whatever) on it's service then it can do that. It is not a free speech issue. |
That is the current situation in the west with social media and the woke religion.