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If that's the way you remember it (I don't remember it that way, but to each their own) then an unfettered medium like 4chan is still a positive break from a handful of stodgy old ideologues controlling the conversation.

(I even disagree with both the left and the right on some things).




This is not a matter of memory, I'm talking about actual court cases, laws passed, and people killed.

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1268/tipper-gor...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_panic_defense#Use_of_the_g...

Then there was the incredible level of controversy over an out of the closet lesbian on nationwide TV!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Puppy_Episode#Reception

Finally, I'll note that Rush Limbaugh was one of the nations most listened to media voices during this time period.


> https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1268/tipper-gor...

Um... you do know that Tipper Gore was and still is an adamant leftist, right? She's Al Gore's wife.


Censorship of music and art was a bipartisan push.

My entire point was that the entire country was more conservative, a point I was demonstrating by showing a time when Democrats and Republicans joining hand in hand to censor music from black musicians. (They also tried to censor violent video games, and the entire internet!)

> Um... you do know that Tipper Gore was and still is an adamant leftist,

Look up https://www.politicalcompass.org/ specifically https://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2

1 axis for left vs right makes no sense, especially when there are members of both dominant political parties who want to curtail liberties.

Politics as a team sport is stupid, don't vote based on single letter next to someone's name, vote for the individual policies a candidate supports.




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