How many people read websites, PDFs, eBooks, and other modern electronic forms INSTEAD OF old-fashioned pulp books?
How many people listen to MP3s or streaming audio, rather than classic audio media like CDs, tapes, 8-tracks, and records?
Everyone accepts, without question, that these new forms of disseminating ideas, discussion, investigations, etc. are EQUIVALENT to their old-fashioned counterparts. It's 2022 after all, right?
So what does it mean when these new forms are censored? When a person can't post a Youtube video? When a person's website is taken down? Isn't that an actual book burning?
I detect a certain amount of cognitive dissonance, or doublethink, here.
At the same time, some Liberals believe that Youtube is optional, websites can/should be censored etc. -- but they themselves own few if any pulp-based books, having moved completely to digital formats. Which is it? Websites are the current year's answer to magazines, newspapers, books? If so, then censorship is the equivalent of book-burning.
Think about it: where is the forum for political discussion these days? The town square? Don't make me laugh. It's almost completely online now -- social media, news websites, forums, etc. Marking users (or their posts!) in any way due to their beliefs, etc. is THE SAME THING as forcing certain men to wear a 6-pointed star, pink triangle, or other symbol (as the nαzιs did). And the liberals certainly didn't support that program!
This meme is what got me thinking. I'm just trying to belabor the point a bit, because this meme has more profound truth in it than you might think at first glance.