YCOMBINATOR PROTIP: if your examples include "tech CEOs" you are hopelessly out of touch with the problem

It's funny how every techbro talking about censorship dives immediately for The Enlightenment as this awesome period where white males got to argue with each other in coffee shops without noticing how inequality was so great that the working classes in the colonies universally rose up, how rapacious corporations exploited the triangle slave trade or how the conditions whereby white intellectuals did whatever the fuck they wanted led directly to the French Revolution, Napoleon, and the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire. Because here's the thing: Ain't nobody talking about "censoring ideas" they're talking about consequences.

This is the reason universities are always full of angry kids: it's the first time they've had any power whatsoever and they know in their bones that it's likely the last. Sure, blame the tattletales for propping up the moldering bones of civilization and don't notice that it's been the steady advancement of economic radicalism that has given the United States a Gini coefficient between Djibouti and the Ivory Coast. "Drown the government in a bathtub" is absolutely the guiding principle of those reactionary conformists.

The entire argument - white, born-privileged rich dude - is that people are sick of white, born-privileged rich dudes getting to do whatever the fuck they want. More than that, they're sick of libertarian sociopaths insisting on their right to do whatever the fuck they want in the name of "independence" when everything they do crushes the shit out of people who didn't get to study in Florence.

And they all know - much as they did when they were in college - that there's fuckall they can do to stop you. They all know that you could run them over in your Tesla X and never spend a day in jail. So they can dunk on you on Twitter. That's it. That's all they got.

Yeah. While you were busy insisting that information wants to be free and moderation is terrorism, you created an ecosphere full of angry disenfranchised poor people howling at you. That's your bed. Lie in it.