Rogan said the left began promoting censorship after social media platforms, particularly Twitter, became the main tool for “influential right-wing people.” He argued that the left “got really into” the phenomenon of “silencing dissenting opinions” of those on both sides of the aisle that challenge its views.
“They silenced those guys. They pulled those guys off of social media and they found that it was effective to do that,” Rogan said. “And then it became a thing that they got really into. They got really into silencing dissenting opinions and it’s gone so far that they’re doing it to left-wing people that step even remotely outside the bounds of the orthodoxy, that’s outside the bounds of what they consider to be a rigid, of maintaining this ideology. They step outside of that, they silence people.” …
“The answer to bad ideas is not silencing those ideas, it’s better ideas,” Rogan said. “That’s my position, and that’s an old school liberal position. But that doesn’t exist that much in the left-wing of today.”
[I’m not sure the Right got that much better at social media, but more that the Right refused to concede the turf. A good lesson for us all. — Ed]
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