People against freedom of speech and opinion more now.

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Oh okay, but it seems that people on the extreme left always want to project their world views onto others and do things like cancel culture, if that person doesn't agree. Wouldn't that be fascist of the left though, and they thus the more extreme left are fascist? Or so I thought.

Oh okay, well if the police are not allowing enough times for the crowds to disperse then that's bad of course. I am not a riot control expert so I do not know the best thing to use first. CS gas maybe?

Oh okay but it seems that a lot of the people being cancelled like on twitter for example, are because of anti-leftist remarks, unless the right canceling the left on this as well, and I am missing it?

Conservative Americans right now saying that Fox News is communist because it is admitting that that Joe Biden won the election, you don't think that is canceling?

The Right are constantly trying to cancel people. They threw a fit and destroyed products when Gillette spoke out against toxic masculinity. They ended an athlete's career for kneeling for the anthem. And so on.

If it looks like the administration side of Twitter is going after the Right more, than that goes to show how the Right are more likely do things like actually harass and be abusive to other people, or use dangerous misinformation.

Oh okay, I didn't think that those cancellations were successful though, because of course the President's career is not going to be ended by it, but yes that is canceling as well good point. So I guess the right and the left are both into cancel culture now. Which athlete was that?

I think it's everyone's right to decide to stop watching a TV show or watching a TV station or listening to a radio station, etc.

Just remember when some conservatives were whining about sports being ruined by the "left wing" because of Black Lives Matter stuff and how they can no longer watch the games anymore. That is cancelling them pretty much. But it is still their right to stop watching sports and going to the games. But I also see it as their loss too.

Oh yeah, everyone has the right stop watching, but it's just I don't think TV shows should be cancelled by people because those people think they are better for whatever reason. That's where it seems like fascism to me, because you think you are better than the other person and that is why you are cancelling them.

For example, after the George Floyd murder, the TV show Paw Patrol was cancelled. But I don't think it should have been cancelled for a completly unrelated event. I think it should have been up to the parents of the children as to whether or not it was cancelled but the parents I know, didn't know it was cancelled because it already happened so fast, before people had a chance to refuse to watch it. That's where it seems like it's more fascist, at least that's what it comes off as.

They are cancelling people because of things they don't like rather than doing it as a favor to the people because it's what they want, so to speak. A TV show should be cancelled because of a ratings, decline, not because of completely unrelated events.

But I think there is a line between not watching a show, compared to canceling it directly by kicking it off the other for a fascist reason, and that is where the line is, to me it seems at least.

Paw Patrol was not cancelled.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53538204

Oh okay, I read before it was cancelled earlier this year, and was told so by my friends who's kids watched it back then, but I guess that was a mistake. But the article does mention how other cop shows were cancelled as a result if that's true? So I guess if it is, that would be cancel culture then?

People often whine about "muh free speech", but have no idea how it actually works.

Free speech does not mean "you can say whatever you want, period". It just means the GOVERNMENT, won't dictate what people can or can't say (exceptions apply). PEOPLE can still have an opinion of you, and are allowed to act on it. If free speech was a "free" as people seem to think it is, then every terrible thing anyone ever said would be "protected speech".

Free speech also does not mean one person's free speech overrides another person's free speech. Person A has every right to say "Birds are evil!". Person B has every right to respond "No, birds are not evil!" If person A uses free speech to justify their statement, then by that same edict, that should accept the other person's free speech as well. This is why "MY free speech, so YOU shut up!" is an idiotic statement. If you really believe in free speech, Person A should respect Person B's free speech to disagree.

Telling someone to "shut up" is the exact opposite of free speech, even if it's in the name of one's own free speech. That's prioritizing A's right to free speech over B's right to free speech. In other words, Person A has the privilege of making the statement, while Person B is denied the same privilege, for the sake of "greater freedom" of A. When one person's "freedom" is prioritized over another's, that's privilege.

As for the consequences, it says you have the right to freedom of speech - it does not guarantee any protections beyond that, like not being fired for saying dumb crap, or that people have to like you, even if you say nasty things. The constitution isn't a guarantee of unlimited freedom - it's a contract that says "you will get at least this much freedom".

When I think of freedom of speech, I am usually thinking about entertainment and the arts.

Usually, it's the right who wants to stifle and censor art, film and television, often on religious grounds. For the late senator Jesse Helms, it was almost his whole reason for living.

Actions from the left lately include recasting voice actors on animated shows (Simpsons, Family Guy, Big Mouth, etc.), and cutting back on sex jokes in response to MeToo.

I do not support censorship of the arts of any kind, whether it's from the right or the left.