yamoose

I think you are conflating de-platforming with legal censorship. Many, but definitely not all, people on the left advocate for de-platforming certain individuals whose rhetoric or ideas they view as dangerous and harmful. There is a difference between not wanting Alex Jones to speak on campus and wanting the government to ban speech surrounding conspiracy theories. I have never seen even a radical leftist advocate for LAWS limiting free speech. I'm also not huge on de-platforming, but your statement that a significant number of leftists want censorship like you are assuming is happening with the Hunter Biden story is just not true.

As for the Hunter Biden story... If you are to accuse someone of corruption, the burden of proof is on you. Tucker "lost" incredibly damning documents is ridiculous. If I were to receive such documents, I would make numerous copies and keep them in numerous spaces where they would be safe. This story sounds so foolish, it is truly impossible to believe.

If you are worried about living in a totalitarian state, there are many aspects about the Trump administration that should worry you. From nepotism, to attacks on the free press (threatening unfriendly media companies with anti trust action and litigation), Trump using the justice department to stop the release of books critical of him, his signing an executive order just a week ago to remove protections for civil servants and drastically increase the number of positions appointed by the president, his refusal to denounce conspiracy theories, his instance that "the other side" are radical and anti-American, his undermining of judicial authority (for example, he threatened to break up the 9th circuit court after it ruled against him), his attacks on independent government watchdogs, his determination to undermine confidence in the election by citing voter fraud that there is no evidence of, his refusal to commit to a peaceful transition of power, his attempts to hold social media companies accountable for what people say on their sites (this would effectively force social media companies to censor what users say), Bill Bars attempts to place himself in the way of investigations into corruption by the Trump administration, Trump owing hundreds of millions of dollars to an unknown foreign entity, his use of foreign shell companies that point to possible money laundering, his ties to groups like the mafia and the Saudi government (who, by his own admission, gave given him hundreds of millions of dollars in business over the years), etc...

This administration is corrupt and antidemocratic. It has tried to make a big deal out of this Biden story, which is a big, dishonest nothing burger. There is no evidence that Joe and Hunter Biden did anything corrupt regarding Burisma, and no evidence that Joe Biden has received money from foreign entities. America's own intelligence agencies have warned that Rudy Giuliani was a target of a Russian misinformation campaign to smear Biden with this story. Attempts by Trump and his supporters to draw attention to the Biden story are attempts to draw attention away from Trump's own corruption and conflicts of interest.