So they blocked Richard Dawkins’ Facebook account and after a couple of days today and a couple of days ago. It’s not unusual. It’s something that comes standard life in the 20th century West. A 30-year-old anonymous censor who may well be didn’t even take basic science classes (because they’re white, sexist and imperialist) is judging and censoring perhaps the most important biologist of the 20th century.
But maybe there’s no arrogance behind it. A censor whose main qualification is a three-month internship at a non-profit, probably didn’t know who Richard Dawkins. Just as he probably doesn’t know who William Shakespeare was. Just he just deleted the account of some old guy with pre-flood views.
The Soviet Union, China and other empires went through something similar. But everywhere. the period lasted only a few years. Then the new rulers realized that the science and knowledge they needed after all. Only here in the West is it so long-term nature. But again, it’s less violent. So far.