Comment by Jensson
6 days ago
As a non American I don't see MAGA policing online or in tech companies, but I see a lot of woke. So while the things you talk about might be local problem to USA, the woke problem is something USA exports to the entire globe, so it seems like woke has much more power than maga and thus is a bigger problem.
There was a period of time on Musk's X where an internal filter would instaban anyone who wrote the letters "CIS" together.
That period of time is now. That filter is still active.
It isn't:
https://x.com/search?q=cisgender&src=typed_query&f=live
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Dare say something anti-Trump on X and you'll see massive MAGA policing. As a specific example see the responses to this: https://x.com/Aaronsmith333/status/1876813647625810407
MAGA is a nationalist movement, so obviously it doesn't apply to the whole globe, but each country (in the West and elsewhere) have their own nationalist movements.
I'm from Denmark, and we were first-movers in Europe on "anti-wokeness" since our election in 2003 (before the term existed). Interestingly, as Europe has moved more to the right in recent years, the wave has been quietly receding a bit here.
Other countries outside of the North Atlantic West also have intense nationalist and "anti-woke" movements (Duterte, Bolsonaro, Milei, Putin, etc.) which do their own anti-woke policing, sometimes literally, through law.
In general, my feeling is that the main actual threat to free speech globally is nationalist "anti-woke" movements.