[notacoward]

Exactly. Anyone with any reading comprehension (and honesty) can tell that PG conflates being woke with acting woke early on for exactly this purpose. He also talks a lot about polarization as though it's entirely the "woke mob's" fault, about moralizing without mentioning evangelicals, about "enforcers" without mentioning MAGA paramilitaries, etc. It's all very disingenuous, even for him.

[Jensson]

As a non American I don't see MAGA policing online or in tech companies, but I see a lot of woke. So while the things you talk about might be local problem to USA, the woke problem is something USA exports to the entire globe, so it seems like woke has much more power than maga and thus is a bigger problem.

[moron4hire]

There was a period of time on Musk's X where an internal filter would instaban anyone who wrote the letters "CIS" together.

[lightbritefight]

That period of time is now. That filter is still active.

[mike_hearn]

It isn't:

https://x.com/search?q=cisgender&src=typed_query&f=live

[Izkata]

"Cisgender" is a technical/scientific term. The slur is "cis" alone.

[mike_hearn]

That's irrelevant because "cis" isn't blocked either:

https://x.com/search?q=cis&src=typed_query&f=live

[nl]

Dare say something anti-Trump on X and you'll see massive MAGA policing. As a specific example see the responses to this: https://x.com/Aaronsmith333/status/1876813647625810407

[simonask]

MAGA is a nationalist movement, so obviously it doesn't apply to the whole globe, but each country (in the West and elsewhere) have their own nationalist movements.

I'm from Denmark, and we were first-movers in Europe on "anti-wokeness" since our election in 2003 (before the term existed). Interestingly, as Europe has moved more to the right in recent years, the wave has been quietly receding a bit here.

Other countries outside of the North Atlantic West also have intense nationalist and "anti-woke" movements (Duterte, Bolsonaro, Milei, Putin, etc.) which do their own anti-woke policing, sometimes literally, through law.

In general, my feeling is that the main actual threat to free speech globally is nationalist "anti-woke" movements.