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I think fear is making people in general just clam up.

Anything you say can be taken as offensive and the crowds bay for blood.

>>docfla+(OP)
If only there could be some legal way protections like this would prevent companies from firing people from pure speculation and accusation alone...

The ironic thing is that this social behavior is what drives corporate culture to stronger conservativism.

>>docfla+(OP)
I think it's now essentially a risk-reward decision, like the author said. And the potential risk of being ousted after being accused of something weighs very high.

>>docfla+(OP)
This is what I was thinking. I find myself just staying way quieter around everyone these days. Men and women.

It's too easy to say the wrong thing and take some serious heat.

>>kilroy+3v
The only rational strategy today is to give absolutely nothing away whenever possible. That includes never posting anything under your name online, not under any circumstances - unless you have no choice, for professional / work reasons.

Every opinion has an easily triggered mob attached to it now, so some mob group will target you if you get any attention upon you.

It's amazing how fast the US became a 99% censored nation (either self-censored, mob cancelled, or censored by big tech), terrified, buried under authoritarian & hyper angry mobs desperate to attack other people. It happened within a single decade.

It's going to get a lot worse yet. I used to tell myself that living in the US was worthwhile despite its flaws because at least we had tremendous free speech protections (and most countries do not), and that's no longer true de facto. The US is arguably now worse - in reality, not the pretend notion that free speech still technically exists - than more speech censoring nations like Canada.

>>docfla+(OP)
Ironic that all these platforms that have democratised global communication mean only the deranged or the righteous say anything.