Vow of Silence
Banned
Its funny though, that tweet is so typical of another aspect of the current morality panic: getting offended on somebody else's behalf!
Tell us what you personally feel you are being denied by this censorship, what is it exactly that's being lost? Because if you don't have the moral conviction to actually defend it, and stand by it, I couldn't give a fuck about your fake outrage.
Its just a different flavor of virtue-signalling. The left have a shit-ton of it admittedly, but its not a monopoly. Whoever is doing it, its still just narcissitically creating cultural noise by saying "look at me", I'm anti- this thing.
I dunno. I think he appears to just be standing up and saying "enough of this shit please" on principle, based on it being the moral panic of a loud minority that he doesn't see as a good basis for any kind of content control. The other option is staying silent. I understand virtue signalling to be making a statement not because you believe in what you're saying but for the social approval you'll get from saying it. If you're really cynical you could try to make the case that everything anyone says in a public forum is a form of virtue signalling, but I don't believe that. Sometimes people say things that they know they're going to be attacked for, but have to say it anyway.
Has the cultural dynamic shifted so that the anti-SJW stuff is in the ascendant now? I don't think so, but I think there is definitely a growing backlash against it, and part of that backlash is people speaking up against it. Corporations are generally very much in line with the woke crowd still. Seeing as the target of these tweets is Sony, a massive corporation, and a 'new wave' of puritanism, I'd say it's a series of public statements trying to turn the tide rather than go with it. If 'go woke go broke' is even remotely true, this stuff will play itself out, not by a reversal and a sudden penchant by corporations to inject their PR with 1950's style chauvinism, but just the removal of the shriller moralising. Look what's happened with the massive layoffs at Buzzfeed, HuffPo etc. - all woke publications. Look at the Gillette advert thing. Where is this going? What is next? All very interesting.