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On Cancel Culture and the State of Free Speech

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Social Media Is Not Where Comedy Lives

Comedians just don't face that kind of censorship in clubs these days, not to mention on net flick specials. The last bastion of government control, as nestr sees it, is on network t v where the f c c still holds. That brings us to the recent controversy of dev chapel and netflick,. Some people felt among some people, particularly transpeople, he had transgressed in his jokes about transpeople In a way that was unfair, illegitimate, even dehumanizing.

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