In recent years, the word, “censorship” has become a pejorative term and has consequently lost its real meaning and value when used and digested appropriately
In recent days, President Donald J.Trump was, indeed, censored by various social media outlets. Most notably, of course, was the President’s favorite social media megaphone, Twitter.
Many on the Left run from the word, censorship, and are quick to replace it with another. In so doing, the Left almost suggests that the President wasn’t censored and no one should be censored — when in fact, he was, and his censorship was entirely appropriate.
To cultural libertarians, free-speech-Puritans, self-appointed leaders of the “Intellectual Dark Web” and Twitter Philosophers, President Trump’s censorship has been taken as an enthusiastic invitation to go full-blown Chicken Little, preach their gloomy political gospel of the impending doom of free speech in the Western World, perform their self-righteous holier-than-thou dance number for as long as the issue is politically relevant outside their cozy echo chambers.
To the President’s defenders, his censorship is supposedly many things, “Orwellian” (blah blah blah). However, to them, the President’s censorship is really just the thing they’d prefer to talk about at the moment, as opposed to the reason why The…
