Where speech isn't regulated and sanitized by government or corporate oversight, "far right" populism flourishes. Where speech is heavily regulated, redacted, and shadow banned, neoliberalism finds a home.
How curious!
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Maybe because people are naturally arseholes and the base rules of courtesy have to be enforced?
Neo-Nazis - no longer having the right to 'Freeze Peach' via GCHQ, being the least of their problems - declared terrorists: by the Conservative government here in Britain.
Enjoy your paradox, Shateau Fartiste.
And when the nightclub isn't regulated, drugs flourish.
And when the pubs aren't regulated, drunken violence flourishes.
And when religion isn't regulated, cults flourish.
And when healthcare isn't regulated (and sanitised!) disease flourishes.
Yet sometimes the effects of over-regulation can be worse than the effects of under-regulation. Normal people (including neo-liberals) don't want a society that imprisons and kills people for 'speech'; Heartiste does want that, because he's a Nazi sympathiser.
However, like the Utoya killer (whom he probably admires) he'll just never 'get it'.
Because every website or forum that doesn't some minimum standard of behavior inevitably degenerated into "a wretched hive of scum and villainy," as the most boorish and vile will end up flocking towards it as they are also getting booted from places that won't put up with their shit; meanwhile anyone who was there who isn't a complete and total lout will usually end up leaving in disgust.
Where liars aren't called out beliefs based on lies flourish. Neo-conservatives don't answer charges that they're liars with facts, they answer with "teach the controversy" (which is simply restating their own unqualified assertions alongside facts as though they were equivalent) or whataboutism that tries to shift focus elsewhere without addressing the issue one way or the other banking on principles meaning enough to their opponents that they'll focus on cleaning up the tiniest motes of dust in their own house before ever daring to bring up the burning garbage dump that has overtaken yours.
What people like you are inclined to label as "political correctness" is closer to a requirement of truth for a statement to be made. Sweeping declarations and casual slander don't have truth in them, but repeat them enough to people who don't give enough of a shit to check and they'll believe it simply because it's being said.
Guess who also flourishes "Where speech isn't regulated and sanitized by government or corporate oversight"?
Conspiracy Theorists
The far right isn't singular and unique in the fact that they congregate where there are no rules to shut down their calls to violence.
In Europe, neoliberalism is a far-right ideology. So I fail to see the differences. Sure, it's not Nazism, it's still (barely) democratic, but it's not far off...
If the Chum Hog is right, Russia and Turkey ought to be heavens of neoliberalism. Russia have people murdered all over the world for daring to fight for human rights, while a failed coup d'etat in Turkey 2016 has so far landed tens of thousands of people in jail and hundreds of thousands have been sacked, many of them journalists, Amnesty workers and other fighters for human rights. If that many people were indeed involved in the coup, it wouldn't have been a coup but a revolution, and it wouldn't have failed.
Why the scare-quotes around far right, Chum Hog? Is that because you see it as everything to the left of Thatcherism [spit] and Reaganomics is far-left communism? Religious-Rightism is center-right and Nazism is moderate right?
Confused?
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