I learned from David Henderson and, separately, also from Phil Magness that Facebook will not allow this post, by Tyler Cowen, at Marginal Revolution to be shared. So I just tried to share it at Facebook, saying there about it only “Interesting.” Not surprisingly, within a few seconds Facebook removed the share.
I remain adamant that Facebook, being a private company, can allow or prohibit whatever content it wishes, and do so for whatever reason(s) it might have. Nevertheless, it’s curious (to put the matter mildly) that Facebook does not allow the sharing a post by Tyler in which he asks why more people aren’t expressing opposition to those who support government censorship.
And it is distressing – if, alas, unsurprising – that among the supporters of the Brazilian government’s censorship of Musk-owned X (formerly Twitter) are “progressive” economists, including Daron Acemoglu, Gabriel Zucman, Yanis Varoufakis, Mariana Mazzucato, and Thomas Piketty.
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I am no supporter of Donald Trump and his MAGA followers. But these prominent left-wing scholars’ support of Brazil’s leftist government’s censorship is both appalling and evidence that liberal individualism and the rule of law is today threatened not only, and perhaps not even chiefly, by Trump and others on the populist right.
