Looks can be deceiving. Is that your message?

Because your post looks like something created by a person who has simplified the world into blunt binary categories, suitable for a grade schooler to understand.

Neil Young was fine. Good songwriter, modest guitar skills, songwriters' singing voice. And should be immortalized for the courageous one-note guitar solo in "Cinnamon Girl". But he didn't "change music forever", or whatever fanciful
claims people are making. He'll be remembered by his fans, that's about it.

And now he's joined the "I'm all for free speech, BUT..." or "I'm against censorship, BUT...: " crowd? The folks who somehow (probably coincidence, eh), end up doing and saying things that serve the interests of the
"folks" who own everything. You want to know who's really rebellious, who represents a danger to the power-that-be, look to see who's getting attacked.

Rogan's "crimes" consist of speaking to people who are to be officially "suppressed". Even when that's people who are more medically qualified than long-time government bureaucrat and pharmaceutical industry factotum
Dr. Anthony "The Science" Fauci or head of the totally non-politicized CDC Dr. Wallensky, or Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director of the (wholly owned-and-operated subsidiary of China, Inc.) World Health Organization.
  You've been told what's right (subject to change) and you have appointed yourself a policing agent for the official position.

And in 2022, it isn't enough to be right, you have to destroy whatever hasn't been deemed "right". So.you've rebelliously joined the mob, to suppress wrong ideas.
For freedom!

Good work. I'm just surprised that, in his dotage, Neil Young sounds like every intern managing a corporate social media account,. Didn't see that comin'.

Yeah, very concrete. The amorphous, ill-defined, problematic territory is found when a subjective feeling that criticism is "hatred" is indulged. As it sometimes seems to be by the folks at YouTube. Same as when criticism or disagreement are deemed "harassment".
That is a problem. Because any subjective "feeling" can easily be weaponized by the ill-intentioned.

+1, anticipated my post

Which was gonna be something along the lines of "Wait. What the fuck does DACA have to do with the H1B program that provides all this foreign "talent"?" Answer: nothing at all. This is clearly political.
Now...since we know MS has gotten some nice considerations from government, and we can see this as a political attack on Trump, not an explanation of real business concern, WHO is MS paying back? And the answer is, the Dems. Of course, that can't be because "The Narrative"© clearly states that only the Republicans do favors for big companies and get political returns from it. So, more cognitive dissonance, lefties?

Well...HBO could add their signature touches to cat videos. I mean who could resist cats saying "Fuck!" and cats with big titties?

Sooo...let me get this straight. It is consistent with some 'narrative' you have constructed that the government goes, hat in hand, to taxpayers (Is it just one taxpayer? Or a small group? Not real clear on how you suppose that works.) begging for money to upgrade the OS on a few million Fed computers...and the taxpayers say "No!"? Because Trump? Because stupid? Because conservative? Ummm....your narrative isn't real clear on this. My sole experiential datum is that they've never asked ME about it. But this apparently does happen, and has something to do with how superior you are to somebody else, right?

Amazingly, this happens despite the fervent desire of MS to sell more OSs, and the ability of our FedGov to pay for anything it wants in every other area by (apparently) using imaginary money in amounts generated by magical mathematics. I am at a loss to explain this, though it does suggest the possibility that since your little hypothesis entirely lacks predictive or explanatory power, it might indeed be nothing more than the lazy, stupid, politically-motivated narrative it appears to be. Only a Jeff Sessions-level intellect could come up with "The dumb conservatives have cut government spending so drastically that..." well, fuck, I can't really get past that without drifting off into some alternate universe...

(sry bout the Sessions crack. Nobody deserves that kind of vituperation)

Actually, it's "ogle", one 'g'. I also like "oogle" because of the visual onomoatopeia, which is pretty rare. (Though "I was ooglin' some boobs, man." only needs four dots to make a clear picture of the stated action.) Also, "oggle" makes me think of bouncing boobs around...with your EYES.

Now I forgot what point I was going to make about generational shifts, hippies, hipsters, gentrification, coolness, social justice, privilege and Burning Man. Tell ya what, just throw those together with random approval/disapproval values and it'll be more or less what most posters seem to be doing anyway.

At least they're off my fucking lawn.

Awesome. A very basic, junior high-level understanding of commerce and human society and presented here it reads like a dissertation.

And this is what so frustrates the Left-their materia, their clay, the insensate mass of plebian class victims of which their just and noble revolution will be constructed instead know that there's nothing wrong with commerce or prosperity. They can't be convinced it's inherently wrong to "do a deal an fat up de pocket mon". The great and self-evidently GOOD leveling project never really has a chance.

People should be viewed as capable of contending, striving, achieving, advancing their own well-being...even people less educated than yourself, even people of different color or culture...with good rules* this can benefit everybody and result in a peaceful and prosperous society. The "everybody should have the same" crowd doesn't really think that, and are usually willing to appoint themselves executors of a plan to achieve said result. Others are not eager for this to happen. Not that the unappealing nature of leftist solutions is in any way a defense for the corrupt crony klepto-capitalism "our" "political" "leaders" have been bribed into creating.

*-this "good rules" thing seems to be the sticking point, the stumbling block, the fly in the ointment and," ultimately, the nub of my gist.

"Safe communication means safe means for unsuppressed countering of government propaganda, avenues for free expression of disagreement with government actions, avenues for planning concerted action against a corrupt and sold-out government, and for effective planning and recruitment."

Fixed it for you. Or do you trust this government? The government that writes paid-for legislation for Disney and Time-Warner? The government that allows pharmaceutical companies to write legislation that gets rubber-stamped 100 times out of a 100? The government that promises 'transparency' and then absolutely CRUSHES anyone who exposes unconstitutional practices or blows the whistle on corruption? The government that promises enlightened reform of drug laws and then (literally) laughs at the prospect of maybe NOT ruining people's lives for minor offenses. The government that pads the coffers of ADM and Simplot with farm subsidy giveaways, and when trotting out Ma and Pa Kettle isn't adequate to quell the outrage at the corruption, ties the gifts to food stamps...for the poor, for the single mother, for the CHIIIILDREN....*sniff*

This is the government of, by and for, DEA scum, corporate thieves and the purchasers (not creators) of intellectual property.

Okay, it's YOUR government, I get that, but as a citizen of the US, I feel it SHOULD also be mine, and increasingly, that it isn't. Maybe a government that feels it needs to keep every citizen under surveillance recognizes that it really is NOT serving "all of the people", and is concerned that more and more of us are figuring this out.

Your concern seems to derive more from a a hard-on for Google than any real fear of tyranny....but you did say your cowardice trumps your cluelessness, so that's all good then.

Now tell us how it's all the fault of one half (the "Republitards" or "Rethuglicans" . I'm guessing.) of our monolithic political party, in (imaginary) opposition to the "Good Guys" and you could score the idiocy/cowardice/hypocrisy trifecta! This will qualify you for a "Perfectly Average Internet Poster" Award.

Impending tyranny is a valid concern, of course, as the oligarchs, plutocrats and terminally cynical politicians who comprise what passes for an 'elite' in the 21st century cannot be trusted to be satisfied with becoming filthy rich from the public trough, in perpetuity, but rather, will kill off the herd for an extra nickel a head ("'Less in the future?' What does that even mean? More is MORE! I'm biting off this nipple and taking it home!"*).

But to explain the mechanism of your enslavement would run us well into 'tl, dr' territory, and why bother with that when there are so many tasty bumper-sticker-sized thought-o-bits to be consumed? You just continue ranting about the brand name on the shovel being used to bury you...

*-to put an indelicate but accurate point on it.