The Left Has Replaced Social Liberalism with Social Control | Opinion

This new politics of social control means using public and private institutions, almost all of which are now controlled by left-leaning people, to coerce individuals into their preferred modes of being and even thinking.

Hundreds of colleges and universities have “bias response teams” aimed at regulating offensive utterances by students. Silicon Valley companies founded to connect the world in a new public square have been cajoled into becoming a 21st century speech police (although not an impartial one). The infrastructure those companies have built is being used by liberal activists as a sort of Panopticon, transforming what once would have been thought of as mild and unfortunate dust-ups between individuals into polarizing national scandals that ruin lives.

This is not to say that left is not walking this path of surveilling, censoring, punishing, and expelling out of cynicism. Rather, social media and partisan news channels have made the left much more fearful than they used to be. And the mainstream liberal media has been playing a big role, too.

via www.newsweek.com