I noticed the same things recently, to make the matter worse I think we reached a point where it’s easier to have a conversation in countries considered « anti free speech » than it is in western countries.
What always surprises me the most is the orchestration. When someone get wiped out of the internet, it comes from everywhere almost at the same time. Under normal conditions we would expect different social networks to react differently based on how favorable they are to free speech but somehow they now all have the same rules.
And everybody keep repeating the same mantra to justify it
1. X is not an opinion it’s a crime
2. Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences
All in all, I will say it, I am enjoying more freedom when I am living in China or Thailand than when I am living in France.
Plenty of people say things I disagree with, but constant censorship prevent me from being able to approach other peoples ideas from a different viewpoint.
As a libertarian I can’t live in Europe anymore, it’s impossible to think there, ideas, truth, lies, wrong all disappeared to account for « feeling »
Just gonna toss this into the mix
https://www.socialcooling.com/
There are also aspects of preference falsification and self-censorship to avoid consequences at play.