I read a lot of absurdities about censorship in Academia, much of it full of bias and a bit of hysteria.
I am most familiar with McWhorter from his books on linguistics (some lectures are on youtube, or you can find his books via Scribd or you can find some on Internetarchives). He is a clear writer and a good teacher.
Professor Jacobson's blog has a lot of information about aceademics being destryed in the USA.
Short interview here:
the Twitter revelations show a lot of censorship of opinions and how US government offices intervened to destroy the political opposition of the democrats. So Musk got some old fashioned JFK liberals (who are left wing but believe in free speech) and you can follow it there.
LOL. So when do we JFKliberals retake the Democratic party from the extremists? Oh, never mind.
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I have noted in other posts about the censorship of covid.
It wasn't just in the USA: bit scandal in the UK Press is a whistleblower who showed that government did the same thing.
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.. 77th Brigade was involved in countering misinformation online relating to Coronavirus https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023... The Army’s “information warfare” unit Monitored covid lockdown critics The 77th Brigade, specialist to counter disinformation, and other online activity deemed harmful to the UK,
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,a discussion of the background that inspired Orwell's 1984...
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