the brand new risks for freedom of expression | EUROtoday

Dor ten years, the battlefield of freedom of expression has drawn a comparatively secure entrance: heterodox liberals, centrists and conservatives united towards a progressivism readily deemed censorious. But this panorama has all of a sudden been reconfigured. The Trump administration started to pursue any speech that displeased it – exhibitions on slavery deemed too destructive, reactions too crude to the homicide of Charlie Kirk – and a part of the triumphant proper was fast to undertake the “cancel culture” that it claimed to be preventing, to recycle with out the slightest scruple the justifications of the left (“censorship,” we’re advised, “is simply accountability”).