> once you build the political, legal, and technical machinery of censorship, you're half way to having it co-opted

Indeed, my original post ("Both political parties have tried to silence dissenting views") was simply about censorship being bad no matter which political party does it. I hate that the current administration is doing it. I hated it when the prior administration did it. If we can't acknowledge that both parties did it, then when the parties switch again, there will still be secret soft censorship happening. It's a moral hazard to reflexively discount when a side I may agree with does something wrong.

It's getting increasingly harder to point out when both parties are wrong without people assuming it's a back-handed defense of the other party.