Thread by @ggreenwald

Wanting the state to silence one's adversaries is pervasive across time and culture -- that's why the 1st Am banned it -- but until recently, people were embarrassed to explicitly advocate it.

But in US liberal culture, censorship is now so normalized that this is no longer odd:

https://twitter.com/JuddApatow/status/1480011490643959809

That's all independent of the legal inanities in Apatow's demand as it pertains to the FCC's powers and the like. That's just standard ignorance.

Most notable is how common it is among Dems to crave a union of state and corporate power brute censor one's political adversaries.

Again: it is bizarre -- surreal -- that the people who have convinced themselves they are fighting fascism in the US vehemently demand a union of state and corporate power to silence their enemies.

A fanatic, by definition, believes all their tactics are inherently just.

One last point about Apatow's censorship call: many cheering liberals in reply mention the court case Fox won by arguing cable hosts aren't newscasters. They have no idea Maddow/MSNBC won with the same argument - first! - because the media ignored it:

greenwald.substack.com/p/a-court-rule…

For those preposterously claiming Apatow's pro-censorship view isn't representative of Dem Party or establishment liberalism orthodoxy, here's a 2021 Pew poll finding Dems overwhelmingly want not just Big Tech but *also the state* to censor more online:

pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021…

Apatow, without comment, has now deleted his pro-censorship tweet. Here it is, along with a representative approving reply from blue-check liberals: