Not sure why I'm optimistic but I tend to think the voices calling for censorship are very loud and in the vast minority.
Most regular people I talk to want to put in legal restrictions on what they see as harmful or immoral speech, racism, sexism, anti-homosexual, even fictional works that think wrong.
You live in California?
A progressive place (or regressive if you like), but I think it is a general uptick in the sentiment since social media came along.
Since big box social media started gaming feeds to look like there's extremists everywhere, yeah. Fear tactics.
It works, we are sort of hardwired towards making decisions to survive in the jungle.
