My book on defending from deplatform attacks is now free

While such flak attacks aren't always centralized (sometimes there are Fox-News-style "talking points", but often it's an emergent media consensus with no clear ringleader), de-platforming is an even more distributed phenomenon, where the Two-Minutes-Hate du jour can have a viral, snow-balling character. Don't dare speak up against it, lest your head be next on the chopping block.

Without having read the linked book, I wonder how well the strategies would back-port to surviving flak from the traditional media, who still wield outsized influence over which opinions should be considered acceptable, which candidates are "electable", etc. The message discipline in both the MSM and Cancel Culture is frankly impressive: when the same simple story is repeated consistently, whether via sound bites or memes, it tends to stick; and the payload always carries enough emotional charge to bypass all nuance and intellectual charity. "What I tell you three times is true."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model#Flak

I find political discussions intensely boring but it just feels crazy to me that removing peoples' ability to _say idiotic things online_ is generally considered acceptable by the mainstream these days.

Whatever happened to, "I do not agree with what you say but I will defend with my life your right to say it?"