Carlsen says:
Is there a danger in censoring vile, abhorrent, wrong but genuinely held opinions? How will this end for the Americans and the west if they continue down this path of abandoning their faith in free speech? You had the head of the Facebook saying just a few days ago that one person shouldn’t be in charge of what is right or wrong to say and that they are taking their cues from the US government, the fbi. How can we be sure their motives are pure?“I don’t have a strong opinion on whether he was banned or not. Obviously I don’t agree with anything he says but in principle I think you should either ban all Russians or no Russians. I’m generally not particularly against either but I don’t love banning wrong opinions even if they are as reprehensible as his(Karjakin’s) are.”
People are getting castigated for attempting to see resolve the conflict in a way that isn’t full on aggression, I.e. Sabina Higgins.
It’s like we’re on an overloaded train hurtling down the tracks towards full world war and all the regular braking methods have been sabotaged. I think I’m in the minority though and most are in favour of censoring the wrong opinions.